Absar Khan

Absar Khan

I am not lost, i am just exploring the criterion collection ☝️

Favorite films

  • Unforgiven
  • Drive
  • The 400 Blows
  • Howl's Moving Castle

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  • The Virgin Spring

    ★★★★½

  • undertone

    ★★★★

  • Face/Off

    ★★★★

  • Normal

    ★★★½

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The Virgin Spring
★★★★½ Liked Watched

“God, you see it… and yet you are silent.”
–Tore

A very elemental, raw and uncomfortable depiction of morality. This film starts as a normal medieval tale about faith and innocence and slowly turns into far more suffocating and traumatising, it follows daughter of a Christian family in medieval sweden who is sent on a task from her family and after that, everything turns into pure tragedy. Max von Sydow leads the film with a quiet, almost unbearable performance, while…

undertone
★★★★ Liked Watched

"There’s no way you actually believe that"
–Evy

A very solid and unsettlingly creepy slow burn horror film. And each horror type in this movie feels natural, cause there are no unnecessary jump scares, no extra unnecessary story dumps just pure atmospheric horror. Ian Tuason's direction is exceptional, he basically turns sound into weapon here. Every static crackling sound, distant noise and awkward silence feels like it’s crawling directly into you.What really impressed me is how claustrophobic the whole thing…

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Normal
★★★½ Watched

Bob Odenkirk should definitely do more action roles, he is amazing everytime in it.

Wild Strawberries
★★★★★ Liked Watched

“We carry our memories with us, and they judge us more than we judge them.”
–Isak

A very weirdly comforting yet a terrifyingly soft, It doesn’t scream its existentialism way some films do but it just quietly delves you into a story of a retired old man realizing that most of his life has already happened. And somehow that hurts even more. The actor Victor Sjorstom gives a very humanising and heavy performance, every look on his face feels loaded…