Stephen

Stephen

Favorite films

  • Bicycle Thieves
  • Persona
  • Withnail & I
  • Before Sunset

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  • Insomnia

    ★★★½

  • Obsession

    ★★★★½

  • Five Easy Pieces

    ★★★½

  • Rose of Nevada

    ★★★½

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Obsession
★★★★½ Watched

Had me squirming in my seat, sweat dripping down my face… and that was before it got weird

Had one of the nastiest scares I’ve seen that came out of nowhere. 

Evil stuff. Love it

Au Hasard Balthazar
★★★½ Watched

Maybe I’m not a Bresson guy. The characters are a little too stilted, the plot a little too scattered. So I couldn’t get a lasting emotional connection where I should have done. I will keep trying with his films and eventually they will click.

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The Zone of Interest
Watched

An oblique portrait of the perpetrators of the Holocaust, watched on my own, dosed up on painkillers as I suffer from recent dental surgery. Some Valentine’s Day for me to enjoy

Mistress America
★★★★ Watched

This was actually my first venture into the Noah Baumbach world, and I wasn’t disappointed. Not a perfectly-built film, and had a bit of a dip in the third quarter, but I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt because it touched all the lovely warm parts of my heart.

Only Greta Gerwig could play a character that frustrating but still make me fall for her. Reminded me of someone I know

“I’m in love with everything but can’t figure out how to make myself work in the world”

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