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Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read
Spirited Away (2002) - Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited Away is considered as Hayao Miyazaki’s magnum opus. It strips quintessential animated films of its emphatically exaggerated...


Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read
Hereditary (2018) - Ari Aster
The scope of Hereditary is much deeper and coarser than what you might assume within the horror genre. The film evokes an emotional and...


Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20222 min read
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
The tide of loneliness is a personal one. Its fabric is shrouded in a sort of reverie that floats over the horizon like a mirage. Only...


Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read
Frances Ha (2013) – Noah Baumbach
A poignant film about choice and the sum of one’s microscopic dealings with life. Frances Ha is what leads to up your grandest moments in...


Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read
Moonlight (2016) - Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkin’s Moonlight guards the fragility of what it shows to be a man. It gains most of its sentiment and volition in the way it’s...


Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20222 min read
Chungking Express (1996) - Wong Kar-Wai
A melancholic film that is comfortable within its own set of rules, Chungking Express is silence suffused with expression. The film is...


Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
A film intricately shot, as the life of Veronica, and then the life of Veronique, is reflected back and forth in a dreamlike and hypnotic...


Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20222 min read
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Stanley Kubrick
Eyes Wide Shut forces you to imagine the unimaginable and allows such foreplay to solidify into ripples that often disturb a still...

Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read
The Master (2012) - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Master is one such film that I’d love to deconstruct over and over again to watch it from different perspectives. The film reiterates...


Ayesha Dhurue
May 7, 20221 min read
The 400 Blows (1959) - Francois Truffaut
Watching Jean-Pierre Leaud as a young boy trapped between his defining moments with a friend and his duty as a son to detached and bleary...
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