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Love (2024)

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Interview: Guerrilla Metropolitana’s The Benefactress (2025)

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Crash (1996)

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Orlando (1992)

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Nouvelle Vague (2025)

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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

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Dracula (2025)

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Clouds of May (1999)

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Sirat (2025)

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Bonheur, Le (1965)

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Tag / France

April 3, 2025June 9, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Vagabond (1985)

  • Criterion Collection, Varda, Agnes
  • 1985, Agnes Varda, France
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Vardaโ€™s Golden Lion winner is a bleak exploration of a young female drifterโ€™s (Sandrine Bonnaire in an extraordinary performance) unapologetic defiance of the personal and social obligations that seek to tie down her free self. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Purple Noon (1960)

  • Criterion Collection
  • 1960, France, Italy, Rene Clement
  • 2 Comments

Delonโ€™s star-making turn draws us into a tricky narrative about an even trickier trickster, as themes of impersonation and immorality are explored in this elegant adaptation of Patricia Highsmithโ€™s โ€˜The Talented Mr. Ripley’.ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 11, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Emilia Perez (2024)

  • Audiard, Jacques
  • 2024, France, Jacques Audiard
  • 5 Comments

Controversies aside, Audiard once again tackles admirably something outside of his comfort zone as his unorthodox musical thriller exudes the necessary vitality it needs to tell the story about a Mexican cartel boss who desires to transition into a woman and lead a new life.ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 3, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)

  • Criterion Collection, Resnais, Alain
  • 1963, Alain Resnais, France
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Complex, abstract and utterly existential, Resnaisโ€™ first feature in colour deals with the past, present and future as battlegrounds of half-truths, and edited in a fragmented โ€˜shards-likeโ€™ style, as a womanโ€™s ex-lover pays her a visit.ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 23, 2025February 23, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Tess (1979)

  • Criterion Collection, Polanski, Roman
  • 1979, France, Roman Polanski, UK
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A textbook example of how to produce a handsome adaptation of an iconic novel, Polanski fashions a naturalistic if elegiac tale featuring an excellent Nastassja Kinski in a breakthrough performance.ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 8, 2025September 5, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Dahomey (2024)

  • Diop, Mati
  • 2024, Documentary, France, Mati Diop, Senegal
  • 2 Comments

Some centuries-old Beninese treasures are returned by France, sparking debate over its neocolonial political posturing sublimating as cultural diplomacy as Diopโ€™s quaint Berlinale Golden Bear-winning documentary highlights the dissonances inherent in this โ€˜homecomingโ€™.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 2, 2025February 2, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Fruits of Passion (1981)

  • Others
  • 1981, France, Japan
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Far from the kind of erotica that masquerades as political art, Terayamaโ€™s largely uninteresting cult oddity featuring Klaus Kinski is an absurd tale of sadomasochism as a white man forces his mistress to become a prostitute to test her deep love for him.

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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January 22, 2025January 22, 2025 by Eternality Tan

Time Masters (1982)

  • Others
  • 1982, France, Rene Laloux
  • 1 Comment

Containing the hallmarks of great sci-fi fantasy movies, this enthralling but underseen animation from the โ€˜Fantastic Planetโ€™ director, with art stylings from Mล“bius, gives us intergalactic, mind-bending travel, as an urgent rescue crew attempts to reach a boy stranded on a hostile planet. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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December 13, 2024December 13, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Summit of the Gods, The (2021)

  • Others
  • 2021, France
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A beautifully animated French drama that focuses on the nuts and bolts of mountain scaling as a Japanese photojournalist hopes to find historical and existential clarity about the exploits of several mountain climbers.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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September 17, 2024September 17, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Beau travail (1999)

  • Criterion Collection, Denis, Claire
  • 1999, Claire Denis, France
  • 3 Comments

Visually stunning, contemplative and disruptive, Denisโ€™ brilliant take on toxic masculinityโ€”for men, and by menโ€”revolves around one French Foreign Legion sergeantโ€™s attraction and repulsion towards a new recruit. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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