​​🎬✔️ "Enter the Void"
Director: Gaspar Noé
Writers: Gaspar Noé, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Countries: France 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, Canada 🇨🇦, Japan 🇯🇵
Year: 2009
Starring: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy ...
Genres: drama, fantasy

Denoscription on IMDb:
"An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 72%
- Audience score 71%

​​🎵💿 Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Released: April 20, 1998
Labels: Warp, Skam, Matador
Genres: electronic, IDM, ambient, downtempo, trip hop

Denoscription on Apple Music:
"Michael and Marcus Eoin Sandison's 1998 debut hit with the force of an idea fully formed - and beamed from a distant galaxy, at that. The sources of their crackling ambient tracks - the boom-bap beats of '80s hip-hop, the eerie synths of '70s nature documentaries - are familiar, but the overall effect is as strange as an out-of-body experience. Melodies warble like warped tape, and disembodied voices dart through the murk like auditory hallucinations. It's a spellbinding balancing act between childlike wonder and grown-up dread."

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​​🎵💿 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Released: April 20, 1998
Labels: Virgin, Circa
Genres: trip hop, electronica ...

Denoscription on Apple Music:
"Trip-hop was plenty bleak to begin with, but Massive Attack's third album reached new extremes of desolation. The beetle on the cover is a good indicator of the menace inside. Tempos crawl. Vocals are pitched between a whisper and a growl. Even the milk is black in their midnight world. Hip-hop beats and dub bass come cloaked in paranoid atmospheres, but the all-encompassing sense of dread is never anything less than electrifying. On "Teardrop", featuring Cocteau Twins' angelic Elizabeth Fraser, the storm clouds briefly part - a reprieve that only accentuates the heaviness of the rest."

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​​🎵💿 Portishead - Third
Released: April 28, 2008
Labels: Island, Mercury
Genres: experimental rock, psychedelic rock, trip hop, electronica ...

Denoscription on Amazon:
"Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel, replaced by heavy, brooding rhythms, vintage-sounding electronics, and spindly guitar. Still present, though, is that sense of emotional fracture and deep gloom. "Silence" opens with a dense drum loop which suddenly falls away to reveal Gibbons' voice, cold but magnificent: "Wounded and afraid, inside my head/Falling through changes". "Nylon Smile", meanwhile, is a fine example of Third's occasional folksy edge, an acoustic song reminiscent of Leonard Cohen that, around its midpoint, lifts off on a propulsive electronic rhythm, Gibbons holding one clear, hard note as synthesisers bubble beneath. At times, it's a harsh and foreboding listen: the electronic drums of "Machine Gun" might put off the listener hoping for smooth dinner party fare. But Third is a brave and forward-thinking return, and one great enough to justify its lengthy gestation."

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​​🎬✔️ "Jules and Jim"
(🇫🇷 "Jules et Jim")
Director: François Truffaut
Writers: Henri-Pierre Roché, François Truffaut, Jean Gruault
Country: France 🇫🇷
Year: 1962
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre ...
Genres: drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 94%
- Audience score 89%

​​🎬✔️ "The Worst Person in the World"
(🇳🇴 "Verdens verste menneske")
Director: Joachim Trier
Writers: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Countries: Norway 🇳🇴, France 🇫🇷, Sweden 🇸🇪, Denmark 🇩🇰
Year: 2021
Starring: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum ...
Genres: drama, romance, comedy

Denoscription on IMDb:
"The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 96%
- Audience score 86%

​​🎬✔️ "Easy Rider"
Director: Dennis Hopper
Writers: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1969
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson ...
Genres: adventure, drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 84%
- Audience score 82%

​​🎬✔️ "Inherent Vice"
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2014
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston ...
Genres: crime, mystery, comedy, drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend."

Ratings
IMDb: 6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 74%
- Audience score 53%

​​🎬✔️ "Drifting Clouds"
(🇫🇮 "Kauas pilvet karkaavat")
Director/writer: Aki Kaurismäki
Countries: Finland 🇫🇮, Germany 🇩🇪, France 🇫🇷
Year: 1996
Starring: Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo, Sakari Kuosmanen ...
Genres: drama, comedy

Denoscription on IMDb:
"The recession hits a couple in Helsinki."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 100%
- Audience score 91%

​​🎬✔️ "Casablanca"
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1942
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid ...
Genres: drama, romance, war

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 99%
- Audience score 95%

​​📖✔️ "The System of Objects"
(🇫🇷 "Le Système des objets")
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Country: France 🇫🇷
Publication date: 1968
Genres: nonfiction, essay, sociology, philosophy ...

Denoscription on Goodreads:
"The System of Objects is a tour de force — a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the "new technical order" as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts "modern" and "traditional" functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or "marginal" objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the "schizofunctional." Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life.

The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of "expenditure" and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's lonely crowd and the "technological society" of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle."

​​🎵💿 Underwater Sleep Orchestra - Insomnolence
Released: April 4, 2023
Label: Cryo Chamber
Genres: ambient, dark ambient, field recording, drone

Denoscription on Bandcamp:
"Underwater Sleep Orchestra is a project by Bruce Moallem of God Body Disconnect and Pär Boström of Cities Last Broadcast/Kammarheit.

Where their debut album was presented as two dreams from the same night, this album is for the insomniacs who stayed behind: the drifters between sleep and wake. Music calling from blurry forests of the mind.

For fans of gritty textures, eerie ambience and deep dreaming sonics.

All music carefully processed through VHS tape."

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See also:
Underwater Sleep Orchestra - The Night and Other Sunken Dreams (2021)
Aindulmedir - Star Lore (2023)

​​🎬✔️ "MASH"
Director: Robert Altman
Writers: Ring Lardner Jr., Richard Hooker
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1970
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt ...
Genres: comedy, drama, war

Denoscription on IMDb:
"The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 84%
- Audience score 83%

​​🎵💿 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Released: May 17, 2013
Label: Columbia
Genres: electronic, disco, funk, soft rock, progressive pop ...

Denoscription on Apple Music:
"There is an early Daft Punk track named "Teachers" that, effectively, served as a roll call for the French duoʼs influences: Paul Johnson, DJ Funk, DJ Sneak. Within the context of 1997ʼs Homework, "Teachers" presented the group as bright kids ready to absorb the lessons of those who came before them. But it also marked Daft Punk as a group with a strong, dynamic relationship to the past whose music served an almost dialogic function: They werenʼt just expressing themselves, they were talking to their inspirations - a
conversation that spanned countries, decades, styles and technological revolutions. So while the live-band-driven sound of 2013ʼs Random Access Memories was a curveball, it was also a logical next step.

The theatricality that had always been part of their stage show and presentation found its musical outlet ("Giorgio by Moroder", the Paul Williams feature "Touch"), and the softrock panache they started playing with on 2001ʼs Discovery got a fuller, more earnest treatment ("Within", the Julian Casablancas feature "Instant Crush", the I-canʼt-believeitʼs-not-The-Doobie-Brothers moves of "Fragments of Time"). The concept, as much as the album had one, was to suggest that as great as our frictionless digital world may be, there was a sense of adventurousness and connection to the spirit of the ʼ70s that, if not lost, had at least been subdued. "Touch" was "All You Need Is Love" for the alienation of a post-Space Odyssey universe; "Give Life Back to Music" wasnʼt just there to set the scene, it was a command - just think of all the joy music has brought you. "Get Lucky" and "Lose Yourself to Dance" - spotlights both for Pharrell and the pioneering work of Chicʼs Nile Rodgers - recaptured the innocence of early disco and invited their audience to do the same.

There was joy in it, but there was melancholy, too: Here was a world seen through the rear-view, beautiful in part because you couldnʼt quite go back to it. “As we look back at the Earth, itʼs, uh, up at about 11 oʼclock, about, uh, well, maybe 10 or 12 diameters,” the sampled voice of astronaut Eugene Cernan says on "Contact". "I don't know whether that does you any good. But there's somethinʼ out there." This was the Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. It remains the last time humans have been on the moon."

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​​🎬✔️ "Phantom Thread"
Director/writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Countries: USA 🇺🇸, UK 🇬🇧, China 🇨🇳
Year: 2017
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville ...
Genres: drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Set in 1950s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 91%
- Audience score 71%

​​🎬✔️ "The Consequences of Love"
(🇮🇹 "Le Conseguenze dell'Amore")
Director/writer: Paolo Sorrentino
Country: Italy 🇮🇹
Year: 2004
Starring: Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini ...
Genres: crime, drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"An introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 83%
- Audience score 87%

​​🎬✔️ "Licorice Pizza"
Director/writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Countries: USA 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦
Year: 2021
Starring: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie ...
Genres: comedy, drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 91%
- Audience score 66%

​​🎵💿 Ocoeur - Light as a Feather
Released: May 28, 2013
Label: n5MD
Genres: IDM, ambient ...

Denoscription on Bandcamp:
"Light as a feather" is the sophomore album from French electronic musician Ocoeur. The man behind Ocoeur (which loosely translates as "to the heart") Franck Zaragoza creates an amalgam of leftfield IDM, downtempo and electro-acoustic musics that effortlessly ebbs and flows between light and dark moods without ever getting to emotionally burdened. While other musicians may find such contrast enough Zaragoza also weaves in youthfully delicate melodies that add a childlike playfulness to his songs. Zaragoza says of the album: "My concept for Light As a Feather was to conjure up memories and feelings from the insouciant dreams of youth, The album should elevate its listeners to externalize their most internal dreams and emotions, where everyone is free to embrace their ambitions".

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See also:
Ocoeur - Everything (2020)
Ocoeur - Connections (2021)

​​🎬✔️ "The Great Beauty"
(🇮🇹 "La grande bellezza")
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Writers: Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello
Countries: Italy 🇮🇹, France 🇫🇷
Year: 2013
Starring: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli ...
Genres: drama, comedy

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 91%
- Audience score 81%

​​🎬✔️ "The Eclipse"
(🇮🇹 "L'Eclisse")
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writers: Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Elio Bartolini, Ottiero Ottieri
Countries: Italy 🇮🇹, France 🇫🇷
Year: 1962
Starring: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone ...
Genres: drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 90%
- Audience score 89%

​​🎬✔️ "Diary of a Country Priest"
(🇫🇷 "Journal d'un curé de campagne")
Director: Robert Bresson
Writers: Georges Bernanos, Robert Bresson
Country: France 🇫🇷
Year: 1951
Starring: Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 95%
- Audience score 85%