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As You Were (2014)

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Babylon (2022)

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Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)

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Sans Soleil (1983)

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Bellissima (1951)

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Martin Eden (2019)

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Glass Onion (2022)

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Golden Globes 2023 Prediction

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Cure (1997)

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Subtraction (2022)

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Tag / France

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Sans Soleil (1983)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1983, 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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December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Saint Omer (2022)

  • Others
  • 2022, France
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A somewhat oblique and unconventional courtroom drama about the intersections of legality, spectres of neocolonialism and the plight of immigrant mothers which will require some patience, but Diop shows that she is not afraid to take narrative and stylistic risks. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 26, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

  • Bresson, Robert, Criterion Collection
  • 1966, France, Robert Bresson
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Indescribably a unique, moving experience in this simple yet unconventional tale from one of cinema’s masters of masters.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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December 21, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Pickpocket (1959)

  • Bresson, Robert, Criterion Collection
  • 1959, France, Robert Bresson
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Bresson’s work throws genre and filmmaking conventions out of the window, but thoroughly elevates our soul by the end of this masterful exercise.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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December 21, 2022December 26, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Man Escaped, A (1956)

  • Bresson, Robert, Criterion Collection
  • 1956, France, Robert Bresson
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One of the greatest ‘prison escape’ films of all-time, masterfully constructed through the sharp and precise cinematic techniques of the incomparable Bresson.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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December 17, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Color of Lies, The (1999)

  • Chabrol, Claude
  • 1999, Claude Chabrol, France
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A man is accused of being a paedophilic killer in Chabrol’s effortlessly-mounted small-town crime mystery, shot with breezy naturalism by the acclaimed cinematographer Eduardo Serra. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Demonlover (2002)

  • Assayas, Olivier
  • 2002, France, Olivier Assayas
  • 2 Comments

Misunderstood when first released, this is one of Assayas’ most prophetic works, a cyber spy-thriller dealing with corporate espionage in the disturbing milieu of the burgeoning dark web and manga porn.    

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

  • Criterion Collection, Resnais, Alain
  • 1961, Alain Resnais, France
  • 4 Comments

Extramarital affairs don’t get any more enigmatic and impenetrable than Resnais’ hypnotic Venice Golden Lion-winning anti-romance that boldly discards structure and narrative, leaving only unreliable memories and narrators. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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November 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

  • Bresson, Robert, Criterion Collection
  • 1951, France, Robert Bresson
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One of the world cinema’s most ‘interiorised’ films about religious faith as Bresson centers on the thoughts of a suffering priest who is received coldly in the new village he has been posted to.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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