jakub

jakub

96/400 films by the 27th of December 2026

Favorite films

  • The Holy Mountain
  • Possession
  • Woman in the Dunes
  • PlayTime

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  • Brief Encounter

    ★★★★½

  • Clerks

    ★★★½

  • Beauty and the Beast

    ★★★★½

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc

    ★★★★★

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Pickpocket
★★★½ Watched

Approaching this film, I was a bit scared it would turn out to be another crazy fetishization of crime which is very common, especially nowadays, but I don't really recall someone doing it justice since Jean Genet.
Yet, I turned out to be wrong, this film is far from fetishizing crime, I would even say Bresson didn't really try to aesthesise it, to the point that titular pickpocketing feels very artisanal, like a work of a cobbler or a tailor.…

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Vivre Sa Vie
★★★★ Watched

put any other actress in there and the film would be way worse,

I didn't love it at the start, but it gets much better in the latter half, especially the last two parts which I absolutely adored

Sans Soleil
★★ Watched

Beneath the beautiful images lurks a dull, boring, odiously ethnocentric white dude’s sermon, dressed up as graphomaniacal pseudo-poetic slop voiced by a woman who, despite sounding like she herself hasn’t slept in days, uses her monotonous, droning delivery to provide the viewer with a perfect cure for insomnia

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