Ali Raffaele

Ali Raffaele

Favorite films

  • Erasmus in Gaza
  • Where Spring Comes Late
  • The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images
  • Ulysse

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  • Tora-san to the Rescue

    ★★★★

  • Brasil

    ★★★½

  • Le Pupille

    ★★★½

  • Bayti Zgheer

    ★★★

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  • Tora-san to the Rescue

    Tora-san to the Rescue

    ★★★★

    When Mitsuo started listing all the girls Tora-san fell for throughout the years, random memories of the previous films came to my mind as if they were some personal or some relative's real anecdotes. I myself felt, during the 48 films viewing, as if Tora-san was a relative of mine, as well as his family. Even his encounters felt like they were mine. You can't feel really alone in the world if you meet Tora-san, his caring sister Sakura, their…

  • Brasil

    Brasil

    ★★★½

    Once upon a time, there were some Brazilians who made it to Heaven. Once back, they brought a gift to all of us. It was something called "bossa nova", a waking hearing dream. Nothing else would ever replicate those years and that music.

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  • Martyr

    Martyr

    ★★★★

    I'll just dare to say one thing about Martyr: the Arab world urgently needs more films like this psychedelic carnal (yet sweetly pure) portrayal of death and desire. Its melancholic scent sticks on your skin and hardly goes away...

  • Dune

    Dune

    ½

    All that effort, all that energy, all that budget, for such a shallow, uninteresting and offensively orientalist product. One of the most boring things you'd ever see on screen. I wouldn't save a single frame of it. Nothing worthing a future rewatch. Sci-fi shouldn't be depicted this way. It simply shouldn't.

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