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  Taxi Driver 1976

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2023 3

  He lives in tormented intimacy with the night. His is the curse of insomnia and, condemned to eternal wakefulness, he grows to loathe the world he can never shut his eyes to. Strangers flit in and out with the fleetingness of moths, fluttering to self-sabotage, but after all, the moth flies to the candleflame of its own accord. He watches, disgust etched into the curve of his mouth. Silent and intractable is his repulsion. Until something insidious curls like poison…

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  Three Colors: Blue 1993

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Dec 2022 5

  Close the door on the disease of grief. Close your eyes to it as it spawns, unbearably intimate and exposed; a horror of disfigured nakedness. Cringe back from it, recoil, flinch, but in your willed-for distance it only scuttles forward to close the rift, to entwine itself to the deserter. Your repulsion is nothing more than desire to isolate. And, as anticipated, it can only shrivel in the face of immense grief, for you can still hear it squealing beyond…

Popular reviews

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  The Double Life of Véronique 1991

  ★★★★★ Watched 29 Jul 2021 5

  Mesmerising, hypnotic. A delicately strung sequence, a tentative struggle, a projection of that irreplicable process— the straining of a soul at loss with itself. Kieślowski’s creation is an utter surrender to illogicality, to the impossible, to those forces that may govern us though we remain tragically unaware.

  There exists pain that cannot be conceptualised or expressed with words; only through art and music. Your voice may stutter out of the strings of an instrument, may spill from the brushstrokes of…

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  The Sacrifice 1986

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2021 6

  We are savages... No, that’s wrong, savages are more spiritual than us. 

  The Sacrifice is a darkly humanistic spiritual allegory on nuclear war, confronting a vision of material corruption against man’s inherent strive for the ideal. There is something undeniably Bergman-esque in Tarkovsky’s characters; they are polyphonic and three dimensional, weighted by an existential entrapment, their dialogue laced with epistemological musings and a world weariness bordering on hysteria. 

  It is a film studded with literary allusions... references to Dostoyevsky’s Myshkin,…