Dogville 👱🏻‍♀️🐕🏘

Rewatched on the big screen: A film about human brutality by one of the most cynical auteurs.

( Grace is like a Christ - but with a different ending )

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💡Concept 10/10⭐️
🖊Screenplay 10/10⭐️
🎬Direction 10/10⭐️
📷Cinematography 10/10⭐️
🎞Editing 10/10⭐️

🎭Actors 10/10⭐️
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• I think the film references and inspirations:

Cinema
- The Exterminating Angel, 1962 (Luis Buñuel)
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, 1975 (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Literature
- The Good Person of Szechwan, 1940 (Bertolt Brecht)
- Waiting for Godot, 1953 (Samuel Beckett)

Music
- Pirate Jenny, 1930 (Kurt Weill& Bertolt Brecht)

The Phoenician Schame 💧🏺

Father and daughter: they seem like opposites — one rooted in the material, the other in the spiritual — yet the film gradually exposes their shared truth: both are hiding behind a mask. Ironically, the only character acting with genuine feeling is the one living a lie — the spy who truly loves her.

Wes, careful not to become a caricature of yourself. ( Just ask Sorrentino )

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💡Concept 5/10⭐️
🖊Screenplay 7/10⭐️
🎬Direction 8/10⭐️
📷Cinematography 7/10⭐️
🎞Editing 8/10⭐️

🎭Actors 7/10⭐️
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Anora 💋💰💔

"I like Anora. I mean i like Anora more than Ani."

Mixing Coen-style dark humor with neorealist sensibilities, "Anora" portrays authentic characters on the margins of society. It's only in the ending that the protagonist's existential condition emerges—and it's a punch to the gut.

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💡Concept 8/10⭐️
🖊Screenplay 8/10⭐️
🎬Direction 8/10⭐️
📷Cinematography 8/10⭐️
🎞Editing 8/10⭐️

🎭Actors 8/10⭐️
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• I think the film references and inspirations:

Cinema
- Nights of Cabiria, 1957 (Federico Fellini)
- Pretty Woman, 1990 (Garry Marshall)
- The Big Lebowski, 1998 (Joel and Ethan Coen)