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Three Colors: White (1994)

June 4, 2023June 4, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Family Life (1971)

June 3, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Love Eterne, The (1963)

June 1, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Seven Winters in Tehran (2023)

May 30, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Joyland (2022)

May 28, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)

May 27, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Taxi Driver, A (2017)

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Afire (2023)

May 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Good Morning (1959)

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Lost and Beautiful (2015)

May 20, 2023 by Eternality Tan

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Tag / France

June 4, 2023June 4, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Three Colors: White (1994)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1994, France, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
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Kieslowski’s often overlooked middle installment of the famed trilogy may be one of his most mischievous if perverse films as a downtrodden, recently divorced Polish man plans an elaborate revenge plot against his French ex-wife.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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May 30, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Seven Winters in Tehran (2023)

  • Others
  • 2023, Documentary, France, Germany
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A young woman’s unwavering stand against the shameful Iranian legal system is captured with both intimacy and exasperation in this insightful documentary about the case of Reyhaneh Jabbari, who was hanged for acting in self-defence against a rapist in 2014.  

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 27, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)

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  • 2022, Canada, France
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This beautifully animated adaptation of several Murakami’s texts is talky and philosophical as it flits between surrealism and a sense of groundedness, urging us to find or create meaning in life even when there might be none.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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May 6, 2023 by Eternality Tan

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

  • Criterion Collection, Godard, Jean-Luc
  • 1967, France, Jean-Luc Godard
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A housewife prostitutes herself to earn more money to enjoy life’s luxuries in Godard’s somewhat messy ‘anything goes’ takedown on consumerism, as he scathingly—and self-reflexively—goes off tangent in matters of language, the Paris city, love and more.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 27, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Return to Seoul (2022)

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  • 2022, Cambodia, France, South Korea
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A Korean adopted by a French couple when she was a baby returns to Korea for the first time as a French woman in Davy Chou’s intimate if chastening third feature, backed by an excellent performance from Park Ji-min in her acting debut. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 15, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Jetée, La (1962)

  • Criterion Collection, Marker, Chris
  • 1962, Chris Marker, France
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Marker’s legendary work, comprised of a montage of still photographs with narration, is not just one of cinema’s most famous shorts, but a thought-provoking look at the impossibility of escaping the claws of time.   

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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March 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

À nos amours (1983)

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  • 1983, France, Maurice Pialat
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Sandrine Bonnaire announces herself as one of French cinema’s most compelling actresses in what could be one of Pialat’s most beloved works, which charts the sexual awakening of a teenage girl living with her dysfunctional family.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1977, France
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An endlessly looping piece of cheerful island music envelopes and provides a counterpoint to Duras’ melancholic conversational piece between two women as they reflect on a marriage in tatters.   

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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January 18, 2023April 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Sans Soleil (1983)

  • Criterion Collection, Marker, Chris
  • 1983, Chris Marker, Documentary, France
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One of Marker’s defining works about time and memory, this is an experimental documentary of the highest order, capturing the wonder and bizarreness of human cultures and existence amid technological change. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

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January 2, 2023January 2, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Orly (2010)

  • Schanelec, Angela
  • 2010, Angela Schanelec, France, Germany
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In Schanelec’s under-appreciated slow cinema oeuvre, this could be one of her ‘noisiest’ and most perceptive works as we become privy to the intimate conversations of several groups of strangers who are waiting to depart at the busy Paris-Orly airport.    

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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