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Parasite: unlike anything you've ever seen
Parasite is such a fantastic movie that even its comparison with other amazing works can be dangerous. Korean director Bong Joon-ho has...

JORGE MARIN
Jul 27, 20192 min read
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The Son's Room: calm and slow cry
When it received the “Palme d'Or”, the grand prize of the 2001 Venice Film Festival, The Son's Room was criticized by many for exactly...

JORGE MARIN
Jul 20, 20192 min read
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Silver linings playbook: the brigh side of the (crazy) life
Silver Linings Playbook is a milestone in cinema about people with mental health problems. Usually seen as dangerous (as in Hitchcock's...

JORGE MARIN
Jul 13, 20192 min read
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Manhattan: movie with love... to a city
Woody Allen's Manhattan features black and white cinematography - by Gordon Willis - with a beauty rarely seen in the cinema. The movie...

JORGE MARIN
Jul 6, 20192 min read
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My life to live: a kinematic experience
Filmes Fodásticos (Fuckastic Movies) motto, taken from a phrase by Roger Ebert, states that films are windows in the space / time boxes...

JORGE MARIN
Jun 29, 20192 min read
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Mother! Sensations of horror, bewilderment, and agony
In a Victorian-style house, secluded in a valley surrounded by forest defined as “paradise”, lives a couple in intentional isolation....

JORGE MARIN
Jun 22, 20192 min read
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The rules of the game: affections in full blossom
One of the best films ever produced, The Rules of the Game, 1939, begins with a reception for pilot Andre Jurieu who arrives from a...

JORGE MARIN
Jun 15, 20192 min read
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Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri: legitimate hate and pain
In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh strikes limit situations within an emotional universe that intends to be...

JORGE MARIN
Jun 8, 20192 min read
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Ikiru: is there life before death?
The big concern of movie reviewers, which is to play spoilers, seems inevitable in Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (To Live), which begins with an...

JORGE MARIN
Jun 1, 20192 min read
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Pulp Fiction: fuckastic film
Pulp Fiction is perhaps one of the clearest examples of fuckastic film. Iconoclast, revolutionary, poetic and intelligent, this is one of...

JORGE MARIN
May 25, 20192 min read
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Look at this: ubiquitous sensuality
Ó pai ó is a characteristic expression of the city of Salvador, Bahia, which can be translated as "look at this". And what you look at...

JORGE MARIN
May 18, 20192 min read
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Notorious: beautiful, simple and natural
Notorious is certainly Hitchcock's most elegant movie. It is beautiful because of the perfect Ted Tetzlaff cinematography, bellissimo by...

JORGE MARIN
May 11, 20192 min read
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A Fantastic Woman: conviction and realities
In A Fantastic Woman, we are at first deceived by director Sebastián Lelio to believe that the main character of the movie is Orlando, a...

JORGE MARIN
May 4, 20192 min read
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Avengers - Endgame: infinity is a matter of time
Avengers: Endgame is more than a movie. In its three hours of projection, what is seen is a parade of superheroes and visual effects,...

JORGE MARIN
Apr 27, 20192 min read
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Floating Weeds: unforgettable symphony
The three ideograms of kabuki, the Japanese theater form depicted in Floating Weeds, signify singing, dancing, and skill. The movie is...

JORGE MARIN
Apr 20, 20192 min read
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Lucky is the beauty of nothing
Lucky, for portraying the life of a World War II veteran, could have death as the main motive. However, what we see in the 88 minutes is...

JORGE MARIN
Apr 13, 20192 min read
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Roma is monumental and ordinary
Rome is one of the most impressive movies of this century. Meticulous, grandiose and thrilling, the direction and cinematography of...

JORGE MARIN
Apr 6, 20192 min read
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Citizen Kane: best movie ever?
Citizen Kane is not, as is claimed, the best movie ever produced. But, of course, it's a must-have presence in the best collections of...

JORGE MARIN
Mar 30, 20192 min read
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On Body and Soul: no room to dream
On Body and Soul is a movie going the wrong way of the cinema. Little is said about feelings. The symbolic dimension is replaced by a...

JORGE MARIN
Mar 23, 20192 min read
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Pandora's Box: seduction and tragedy
Pandora’s Box is an analogy used by the prosecutor to accuse the actress Lulu, mistress of the respected publisher Ludwig Schön, a victim...

JORGE MARIN
Mar 16, 20192 min read
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