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Emotions stylized films?
Any recommendation for melancholy, existential or experimental films? I need to feel something…
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@edisonwong
Jun 15, 2024
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@corduroy
i know its been rec'd to death but cant recommend I Saw the TV Glow enough for existential implosion, also Aftersun, After Yang, Past Lives are all beautiful and melancholy
Jun 15, 2024
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@edisonwong
corduroy visually amazing! Thank you for that!🙏🏼
Jun 15, 2024
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@deardoveswings
it’s like super heavy and one of those things i probably couldn’t watch again in a “requiem for a dream” type of way, but i don’t regret watching harmony korine’s 1999 film “julien donkey boy”. heart wrenching portrayal of a young man with an undiagnosed schizoaffective disorder living with an extremely dysfunctional family. experimental as it is one of the films that’s part of the dogma 95 movement (one of the only good movies to come from that movement imo, even if it broke a few rules)
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@edisonwong
deardoveswings wow I must list them to my list! Thanks for the recommendatio!đź’™
Jun 15, 2024
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@merbites
blue spring (2001) kinda fits this description. i’d say it’s a little too graphic to fall directly into the melancholic genre you’re describing, but it’s still a great watch nonetheless.
Jun 15, 2024
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@edisonwong
merbites thanks for the recommendation!
Jun 15, 2024

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