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Love (2024)

December 15, 2025 by Eternality Tan

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 / Germany

May 8, 2019October 26, 2024 by Eternality Tan

System Crasher (2019)

  • Others
  • 2019, Germany
  • 3 Comments

One of 2019’s most impressive films, this is full-throttle filmmaking with both substance and style, backed by an incredible performance by 11-year old Helena Zengel.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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May 4, 2019May 4, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Antichrist (2009)

  • Criterion Collection, von Trier, Lars
  • 2009, Denmark, Germany, Lars von Trier
  • 4 Comments

One would expect no less from a filmmaker hell-bent in making you severely depressed and squirmy – in the name of art, but what beautiful, sensationalizing art.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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February 3, 2019September 4, 2025 by Eternality Tan

On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2017, Germany, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
  • 4 Comments

In the context of Hong Sang-soo’s extramarital affair with actress Kim Min-hee, the work holds more resonance and significance than its delicate and melancholic style would suggest.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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December 21, 2018October 22, 2020 by Eternality Tan

In the Fade (2017)

  • Akin, Fatih
  • 2017, Fatih Akin, Germany
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Akin goes decidedly more mainstream in this uneven drama fronted by an excellent Diane Kruger.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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December 9, 2018February 14, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Edge of Heaven, The (2007)

  • Akin, Fatih
  • 2007, Fatih Akin, Germany, Turkey
  • 4 Comments

Powerful and thought-provoking, this is one of Fatih Akin’s finest works.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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December 8, 2018July 13, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Shut Up and Play the Piano (2018)

  • Others
  • 2018, Documentary, Germany, UK
  • 1 Comment

One of the year’s surprise discoveries, this Chilly Gonzales music documentary will make you fall in love with the eccentricities of music-making.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.
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