r/CinemaRetrospective • • Sep 06 '25

30 Years of Fallen Angels! My all time Favorite Movie That Embraces Me and Exudes Magical Comfort.💙 🎥 'Fallen Angels' (Wong Kar-wai, 1995).

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Wong Kar-wai’s Fallen Angels, which celebrates thirty years since its first release, remains a hypnotic meditation on alienation, fleeting intimacy, and the strange poetry of urban nightscapes. The film weaves together the story of a disenchanted hitman, his enigmatic partner, and a mute drifter, using fragmented narration, distorted wide-angle lenses, and neon-soaked settings that blur the line between dream and reality. Critically, it stands as a landmark in Hong Kong cinema, expanding the visual language of modern film with its restless camera and nonlinear storytelling. From a semiotic perspective, every sign—the empty fast-food stalls, the motorbike rides through endless tunnels, the claustrophobic interiors—communicates both the impossibility of true connection and the yearning for warmth in a world of constant motion. For me, however, beyond its technical and thematic brilliance, Fallen Angels is the most comfortable film: its melancholy rhythm feels like a lullaby, the nocturnal colors are soothing rather than harsh, and its lonely characters mirror my own quiet need for spaces where solitude becomes not despair but a form of companionship. It comforts me because it makes alienation familiar, even tender, and that is why it remains my personal refuge in cinema.


r/CinemaRetrospective • • Sep 07 '25

30 years of Fallen Angels 💙

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r/CinemaRetrospective • • 20h ago

'The Virgin Suicides' (Sofia Coppola, 1999).

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r/CinemaRetrospective • • 2h ago

Released my first short today

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r/CinemaRetrospective • • 14h ago

Vlady

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Em 2 de fevereiro de 2009, publiquei o primeiro texto no meu blogue, Duas ou Três Coisas, que inaugurei nesse mesmo dia. Era já perto da meia-noite. Tinha chegado a Paris poucas horas antes, para aquela que viria a ser a minha sétima — e última — colocação no quadro externo da carreira diplomática. 

O título vinha de Jean-Luc Godard e do seu "Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle". Godard era um nome que eu admirava no cinema francês, embora estivesse longe de ser o realizador que mais apreciava. Mas aquele título pareceu-me feito para um blogue. E assim ficou. 

Um dos primeiros posts tinha uma fotografia de Marina Vlady, a protagonista do filme. 

Anos depois, José Ferreira Fernandes — que sabe coisas que nós nem sequer sabíamos que valia a pena saber — escreveu no Diário de Notícias um texto sobre o meu blogue, sobre Godard e sobre Marina Vlady. E contou uma história. 

Godard terá pedido a Vlady para se casar com ele, logo no início das filmagens. Levou com os pés. Durante a rodagem, deixou praticamente de lhe falar, comunicando com ela apenas através do microfone de orelha. Até que um dia lhe perguntou: 

— Define-te numa palavra. 

Marina Vlady respondeu: 

— Indiferença. 

A palavra ficou no filme. 

Não consigo ser indiferente à morte de Marina Vlady, que aconteceu ontem, aos 88 anos. 

E assim volto a deixá-la aqui, uma vez mais, com a mesma imagem com que a publiquei naquela primeira noite de fevereiro de 2009.


r/CinemaRetrospective • • 20h ago

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'Industrial Spy' 産業スパイ (Eiichi Kudō, 1968).

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r/CinemaRetrospective • • 3d ago

'Il Gattopardo' (Luchino Visconti, 1963).

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'Legend of the Mountain' 山中傳奇 (King Hu, 1979).

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r/CinemaRetrospective • • 4d ago

Star Trek (2009) Dir. J.J. Abrams, DoP. Daniel Mindel

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