Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  The Conversation 1974

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Mar 2021

  A sad and truthful tale of unhappiness

  Beyond the varnish of a paranoid thriller lies something even more potent than the heady vapors of such a solvent. Paranoia always seemed to me like an insatiable beast, that hunts you down from every corner of your life, and from which it’s hard to run away. But this beast, like most of them, is just a distraction. In this case, a distraction of the mind. Because if it’s near impossible to run…

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  Laura 1944

  ★★★★★ Added 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  And cinema happened.

  In a darkened room, a man sits in an armchair to contemplate a picture. The picture is still. And so the man falls asleep.

  The picture isn’t only still physically, it is still on a more metaphysical level. It showcases the stillness of death, for it’s a portrait of a dead woman. Her name was Laura. But what cinema can do is show you a dead person breathing, smiling, laughing, crying, fighting. In one oxymoron, show you…

Recent reviews

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  Hollow Triumph 1948

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Feb 2023

  don't act like you don't know, so I won't act like I knew all along... but I did act, I did pretend, every step of the way

  I'm not too sure anymore if I ever was a character or the actor pretending to be a character, it's hard to tell in the midst of all the lies, but you did had blue eyes, so that's something

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  Somewhere in the Night 1946

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Feb 2023

  it's funny how you end up lying even when you don't know the truth, funnier still when someone pretends to know you, so she can feel a little less lonely in the big empty room of her make-believes... of course I say funny, but it's all so damn sad

  at least for a brief moment, the two strangers who didn't even know themselves had something real

Popular reviews

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  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947

  ★★★★★ Added

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Triptych Mankiewicz: Portrait II: The Creation

  A painting is a doorway to the past.

  Lucy Muir is a widow. She has one daughter. She lives with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Although fate gave her independence from her husband, she seeks a more complete independence from his family. Having lived her husband’s life, and now her family-in-law’s life, she wants to live a life of her own.

  Fortunately, she has a small annuity through a previous investment. And so she leaves…

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  The Misfits 1961

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Apr 2021

  Death, all the way.

  When the film ends, an absence makes itself noticeable. There is no The End title card. Although it would disappear in the years to come, its use was still prevalent in Hollywood cinema of this period. And yet, it’s not there.

  Everything about this film feels terminal. It’s hard to watch it without grieving eyes. Clark Gable died less than two weeks after the shoot finished. The sorrow of his death might have shrouded the editing…