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2024

★★★★ Liked Watched 12 May 2025

The first time I listened to Up the flats from Gemma Dunleavy I was spending the summer with two irish girls who inherited a half-built house in the south-west coast of Ireland. One of them was driving us home after a night a the pub. I asked what’s the name of this one. She said it was her favourite.

Their dad had died young and left them the house he had been building for them with his bare hands. I…

1997

★★★★½ Watched 03 Apr 2025

I just love the fact that during the armwrestle scene the number and disposition of the bottles on the table changes at every cut, and I don’t even know if that’s intentional

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2025

★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

Sanitized tragedy.

Perfect shots, perfect acting, perfect everything, but little heart.

It’s called Adolescence and the adolescents act like they’re either five or thirty years old.

Where’s the contradiction? And what’s the outtake? Social media are bad? Too much time spent on the computer? “These kids are a nightmare”? Adolescents are impossible to understand? We should have talked to them more? Ok, boomer.

A kid has died and her peers’ pain and fear and rage are nowhere to be found…

2023

★★ Watched 18 Feb 2024

Went in full of expectations, had to wait more than one hour to see an interesting character finally enter the room, just to watch the director cutting him out of the frame in the main scene.

How can I relate to people I know nothing about? All we see is two strangers making small talk. That gives us nothing. To me, those are not "significant silences". It's just lazy writing.

Everything is explicit and there's no subtext. Now picture this:…

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