Omar Franini

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Favorite films

  • Burning
  • One Battle After Another
  • The Beast
  • Phantom Thread

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  • La Gradiva

    ★★★★

  • Madame

    ★★½

  • Backrooms

    ★★★

  • Too Many Beasts

    ★★★

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The Secret Agent
★★★★½ Rewatched

Forget it, Marcelo. It’s Recife.

“Recife è sempre stato il cuore pulsante della filmografia di Mendonça Filho e, con O Agente Secreto, il regista non perde l’occasione di dedicare un’ulteriore lettera d’amore alla sua città natale. “Eu amo o centro do Recife.” Così recitava Mendonça Filho nel secondo capitolo di Retratos Fantasmas, incentrato sui cinema locali. Una splendida sequenza, accompagnata dal ritornello di Meu Sangue Ferve Por Você di Sidney Magal (brano che, per pura coincidenza, è stato rilasciato nel…

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Dao
★★★★ Watched

A real ceremony or a simulated one?

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No. 7 Cherry Lane
★★★★★ Watched

***not really a 5/5 but more a 3.5/5; this movie though deserves some love, it’s so freaking weird and there are so many cats, and they fly and even lick nipples!***

No. 7 Cherry Lane is one of the weirdest movie i’ve seen; Yonfan’s slow pace may turn someone off, who am i kidding? This is sooooo slow and the characters keep moving in slow-motion. 
But hell yeah i was very entertained by it; there are so many pointless characters…

Minari
★★★★★ Watched

A new beginning, a “new start” is what the Yi family is looking for as they move on from the West Coast to a rural city in Arkansas to pursue the American Dream. Jacob (Steven Yeun) has bought for his wife Monica (Han Ye-ri) and his two children David and Anne (newcomers Alan Kim and Noel Kate Cho) a mobile home and fifty acres of land with the intention of starting a farming activity. But things do not go as…