Letterboxd — Your life in film

it's rare to see someone able to articulate the feeling of a particular period of their life with so much clarity, so closely following when they actually lived it. i feel like i'm still processing things that happened to me 10 years ago, still reckoning with who i was, as i get even further away from that person. i think it's why you see tons of coming of age films about high school or college made by people in their…

another round is a synthesis of ambivalence, lust and infatuous appeasement.

mads mikkelsen plays a senior level history teacher who alongside his fellow mutuals attempt to conduct an experiment to test if their levels of functionality is catalysed while moderately intoxicated.
what is deliberated is how

mikkelsens character is almost emancipated from his temperance of stoicism, drinking alleviating the burdens that make his life difficult and arduous, while also incrementally increasing the volume of his drinking to further exercise whether…

Soul is the textbook definition of a one-of-a-kind in that there’s nothing textbook about it. From the look to the music and from the structure to the story itself, everything about this is completely fresh. Like watching a Pixar film for the first time again.

The film starts with high concepts and the “adventure” ends with 30 minutes left. Joe Gardner is both gifted and soo normal. Basically, Pixar started with a concept as broad as purpose and stretched it…

Maybe Disney should have just left Mulan alone. The 1998 version of the Chinese legend was one of the studio’s less compelling animated musicals, an awkward combination of showbiz formula, girl-power chutzpah, and Asian cultural references. For the live-action remake, directed by Niki Caro (Whale Rider), the powers that be have dropped the production numbers and put very little in their place. It would be difficult to concoct a less imaginative remake. The wuxia action is certainly more prominent here,…

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Wildly amusing, profoundly weird, and inventively hilarious, Bong Joon-ho, once again, elbows deep into the heartbreaking truth of class inequality and social imbalance in an exciting, unconventional fashion. No doubt that it's a freak show from any angle, but the core thesis of what the film is trying to explore is so grounded to our reality and extremely close to what happens everyday in our surrounding.

It's a sharp-razor family tragicomic that also…

Love and manipulation, they share houses very often. They are frequent bedfellows.

Set in Berlin circa 70s, post-Nazism and early Baader-Meinhof Gang era, Suspiria is nothing like any other remake movie. Yes, the main premise and some of the character names are as same as the predecessor, but Luca Guadagnino created a new spin and twist to this supernatural horror movie.

Divided into six acts, Suspiria does not only show an unnerving and harrowing horror sequence after sequence, there are…