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Allotria 1936

★★★★½ Rewatched 25 Feb 2025 4

Cinema hit a very special equilibrium in that marvellous bedroom merry-go-round-scene. Seriously, film history could just have stopped there, repeating it endlessly. We would all have been much better off.
The Cat in Heat 1972

★★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2025

Off-beat giallo psychodrama with the genre's signature subjective camera shots indicating not a psychopathic murderer on the hunt but rather a desperate housewife trying to break out of the neat little bourgeoise box her life has turned into. Turns out housewife-in-heat povs can put the world just as much out of whack as psycho-killer povs, though.
Generally fiction masks primal anxiety very unsufficiently here, like trying to hide a dead (well...) body under a bunch of leaves and crumbling bits of earth over the blood stains.
Also, Eva Czemerys is a bona fide glamour queen in this.

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Afire 2023

★★★★★ Watched 04 Mar 2023 10

I keep thinking about Leon's tattoo. The way the framing and his partially unbottened shirt again and again lay bare its edges, without ever allowing us to take in its entirety. In a way the mostly hidden tattoo it is a perfect cinematic object: on the one hand it is a device of audience control, because it keeps up our interest in the protagonist and especially in his body, which is never exposed (unlike Devid's and Felix's) and which also…
Deep Blue Sea 1999

★★★★½ Watched 25 Nov 2016 2

sharks below, fire above. this is cinema.

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