moraesfelipe
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Member Since: 29 Dec 2008
Location: Brasília, Brazil
Bio: https://letterboxd.com/moraesfelipecst/
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Between the Temples (2024) - Rated 20 Jun 2025
"It has everything we expect from a good old mumblecore melancholic comedy: it's cute and wicked at the same time, with characters desperately trying to find some light and fun in life even everything feels so gloomy. It's perhaps 15 minutes longer than it should be, as some situations look a bit stretched -- we could essentially remove Gabby, I guess, and the film would play even sharper. Absolutely loved Ben's moms, to the point now I wanna a spin-off about them, how they've met and shit."
Sex Is Comedy (2002) - Rated 18 Jun 2025
"A rare Breillat that seems talky instead of tactile, but this doesn't mean it's less direct/blunt than any other film she's directed. We could say every pic she's made is about her work as an artist, but she dares to reach a new level here: a thorough (self) investigation of filmmaking as a series of negotiations with herself, the crew she's helming and, perhaps more importantly, the acting's huge world of pain, ego and vanity she has to enter/understand to get what she wants. Magic last third."
Grand Tour (2024) - Rated 18 Jun 2025
"Now I'm even afraid of going back to some of Gomes' best, because this feels so annoying. Typical european arrogance on full, unapologetic display through a series of allegedly eerie and arresting melancholic romantic passages through Asia, some following weak dude who ran away from his fiancée (boring first half), woman going after him (the 'better' half) and an ambitious travelogue (definitely Grand Tour's rock bottom) with contemporary images and voiceover narrating what these two are up to."
Fight or Flight (2025) - Rated 16 Jun 2025
"Looks juicy on paper -- gory Harnett vehicle with his character fighting/killing (with all sorts of weapons, from champagne glass to chainsaw) dozens of assassins on a plane --, but execution feels way too basic -- nearly dire. Hysterical comedy ruined this for me -- no proper mise-en-scène regarding funny stuff, only people screaming at each other and us, Also, what's up with the excess of correctness around the leading duo? Busy climax lands on a sequel. And I sincerely hope they get better."
The Piano Lesson (2024) - Rated 15 Jun 2025
"Strong performances by an unbelievably talented cast, but execution feels a bit clunky in the mid section. Family's heritage as a token of harsh times of suffering/death and also a representation of what brings them together as individuals, each one with their own story of growing up and trying to survive in America. In this sense, performances carry so much weight from the past -- that's why Deadwyler really shines, as a black woman having to hold it together while men around her just crumble."
Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'un clown (1945) - Rated 13 Jun 2025
"A bit way too chaotic in terms of essay filmmaking -- the story of a clown during an entire day of just crazy random stuff; clowns are working class too, of course, and they kinda never stop doing their job --, but a curious piece nonetheless. The playful voiceover, by JPM himself, guides action all the way through, making dialogues and interactions really funny and amusing -- like Beby saying a prayer with his dog before going to sleep or doing tricks at a bar while buying cigarettes."
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) - Rated 13 Jun 2025
"Some might argue it's not 'fun enough' because 'nah, no gore' or whatever. But hey, maybe if it did, specially in typical 80s fashion, then it would look just like another slasher flick, wouldn't it? Working within restraints of a TV production, it's a very effective and genuinely spooky Halloween tale that really takes its time in the initial build-up to unleash a spiritual revenge journey after the trial, with creative use of off-screen space to deliver the goods -- killers getting killed."
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) - Rated 11 Jun 2025
"While I like its straightforward videogame narrative structure -- it's basically three stories of human fighters who killed Predators and a final showdown on the Predator planet --, I wish it were a bit more ambitious regarding animation itself -- idk, maybe something less bland or homogeneous, with different styles combining in the final act, by far the strongest section. But we just can't complain much, can we? We're getting two bloody Predators films in 2025. Just keep bringing them, please."
Maioria Absoluta (1964) - Rated 10 Jun 2025
"Not brilliant or anything, but it might be the best of this first wave of Cinema Novo docs. Interesting how it starts with outrageous ideas by brazilian elites of how to "improve" the country only to demolish them through northeastern poor people explaining why their lives are so difficult. They seem totally aware it's due to inequality that's been here for centuries. No land, no food, no water, no wage, no nothing. We've improved a lot, but I also feel we are not so far from 1964 as we think."
Zombie (1979) - Rated 10 Jun 2025
"Maybe not the best zombie movie, but certainly one of the most beautiful to look at. Who cares about plot -- that is actually good! -- when you have just relentless gore experimentation from start to finish, the most iconic eye-gouging scene of all time -- sorry, Buñuel -- , a fight between zombie and shark, centered close-ups of zombies with maggots popping out of mouths, noses and ears, POV shots of them rising from their graves -- oh, and speaking of them, cemetery sequence is top-tier Fulci."
