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  The Whale 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2023

  The Whale (2022)

  7/10

  Not a pleasant experience, but must all experiences be? For the past 12 to 15 years I’ve been reading and hearing people discuss about how certain kind of cinema, directors and filmmaking are “cruel” and “misanthrope”, while at the same time that is equated with the “misery porn” of prestige films from certain national cinemas. I don’t think most of the people that fill their mouths with these words, denouncing to the four winds about how…

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  Chile '76 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2023

  1976 (2022)

  7/10

  A bit too slight for its own good, but still a commendable feature debut. More soon!

Popular reviews

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  Ema 2019

  ★★★ Watched 10 Sep 2019 17

  Ema (2019)

  6/10

  I just don’t want to be rude, but every review here doesn’t come close to describe how fucking atrocious the dialogue is. How pretty it looks, how convinced it is of what it is, are surely high points, but this might be Larrain’s weakest film by far. Empty provocations, queerbaiting, a plot that absolutely makes no sense, strong idealization of madness, a forced sense of normalcy that doesn’t sit well at all. This is an effort that…

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  Swallowtail Butterfly 1996

  ★★★★ Added

  For Brooklyn Magazine I interviewed Shunji Iwai in occasion of the NYAFF.

  www.bkmag.com/2016/06/22/nyaff-shunji-iwai/

  When I asked him about this film, he said the most beautiful thing I've heard in a while:

  "I’m not sure if our world is getting closer to my film, but I do know that the world is always unfair and stupid and dirty… but beautiful."