Maria

Favorite films

  • Pulp Fiction
  • The Worst Person in the World
  • The Piano Teacher
  • Tenet

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  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★½

  • Pi

    ★★★★

  • Tenet

    ★★★★★

  • Blue Valentine

    ★★★★★

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Tenet

2020

★★★★★ Watched

Tenet is a complex film, but it’s also something deeper it’s about how time, choice, and reality might not work the way we think they do. The whole story is built around the Sator Square, an ancient Latin palindrome: SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS. “Tenet” sits at the center, just like the idea of time inversion sits at the center of the movie. Things don’t just move forward but they move backward too, and sometimes at the same time. As…

I, Tonya

2017

★★★ Rewatched

The thing about I, Tonya is.. I don’t hate it.

What gets me is that I relate to it more than I care to it. This isn’t just a film about Tonya Harding and the infamous scandal that defined her. It’s a story about surviving under the weight of impossible expectations, about being shaped and shattered by people who say they love you.

My father was hard on me. My mother too. I grew up with pressure dressed as discipline,…

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The Worst Person in the World

2021

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

To witness something so raw, to feel something so profoundly real. I have never felt more human watching a film. I have spent my life immersed in cinema, yet nothing has ever struck me quite like this. Watching it was less like viewing a story unfold and more like experiencing a sensation, a fleeting moment slipping through my fingers, like a piece of popcorn falling from my hand. It felt intoxicating, yet I was entirely sober.

This film was a…

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