Germany as a cold place of xenophobia, idle gossip, sex and violence. An early Fassbinder filmed with great spatial consciousness, a brechtian edge and a very playful structure.
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Obsession 1976
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, for beauty is a witch. A church that becomes a tomb that becomes a cake, glimmering airport lights and a delusional happy ending, the world reduced to its aesthetic value and promptly distorted by a madman’s deranged lenses. De Palma at his most twisted, a fever dream plagued by an insanity so profound that only teary eyes and the reflection of flickering lights in their ocular globes could be able to accurately portray…
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Where Is My Friend's House? 1987
one of the most diligent films ever made, a painstaking coming of age odyssey with an incredibly expansive symbology: everything here is absolutely essential, a boy whose back hurts because he needs to help his father by carrying milk, some brownish red pants, a gust of wind in the backyard, the windows' reflex on the walls... it's all very potent, these signs aren't there for mere narrative development, they address a much bigger spectrum where politics, economics and metaphysics collide.…
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Old 2021
time also makes me scared and i always feel like everything is moving way too fast and i don’t want to get older and i am afraid i will be ugly and lose my mind and get sick and see people i love die and i also feel like there are many memories that i will never be allowed to have and i also want to be connected to something bigger and i forgot the words that translate how i…
