​​🎵💿 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%

​​🎬✔️ "Suspiria"
Director: Dario Argento
Writers: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Thomas De Quincey
Country: Italy 🇮🇹
Year: 1977
Starring: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé ...
Genre: horror

Denoscription on IMDb:
"An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 94%
- Audience score 83%

​​🎬✔️ "The Breakfast Club"
Director/writer: John Hughes
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1985
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall ...
Genres: comedy, drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 89%
- Audience score 92%

​​🎬✔️ "Thelma"
Director: Joachim Trier
Writers: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
Countries: Norway 🇳🇴, France 🇫🇷, Denmark 🇩🇰, Sweden 🇸🇪
Year: 2017
Starring: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen ...
Genres: drama, horror, fantasy ...

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 92%
- Audience score 77%

​​📖✔️ "Life Is Elsewhere"
(🇨🇿 "Život je jinde" | 🇫🇷 "La vie est ailleurs")
Author: Milan Kundera
Countries: Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿, France 🇫🇷
Publication date: 1973
Genres: fiction, novel, satire, philosophy ...

Denoscription on Goodreads:
"Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed, and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a sombre farce."

See also:
Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

​​🎬✔️ "Last Year at Marienbad"
(🇫🇷 "L'Année dernière à Marienbad")
Director: Alain Resnais
Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Countries: France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹
Year: 1961
Starring: Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff ...
Genres: drama, mystery

Denoscription on IMDb:
"In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 95%
- Audience score 85%

​​🎬✔️ "Fallen Angels"
(🇨🇳 墮落天使 | Do lok tin si)
Director/writer: Wong Kar-wai
Country: Hong Kong 🇭🇰
Year: 1995
Starring: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok ...
Genres: drama, comedy, crime, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 95%
- Audience score 86%

​​🎬✔️ "Pi"
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writers: Darren Aronofsky, Sean Gullette, Eric Watson
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1998
Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman ...
Genres: thriller, horror, mystery, drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 88%
- Audience score 85%

​​🎬✔️ "Oslo, August 31st"
(🇳🇴 "Oslo, 31. august")
Director: Joachim Trier
Writers: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Countries: Norway 🇳🇴, Denmark 🇩🇰, Sweden 🇸🇪
Year: 2011
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Tone Beate Mostraum ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 97%
- Audience score 82%

​​Milan Kundera
1 April 1929 – 12 July 2023
R.I.P.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Life Is Elsewhere

​​🎬✔️ "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writers: Milan Kundera, Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1988
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin ...
Genres: drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Central Europe, 1968: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 86%
- Audience score 84%

​​🎬✔️ "Ordinary People"
Director: Robert Redford
Writers: Judith Guest, Alvin Sargent
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1980
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 89%
- Audience score 88%

​​🎬✔️ "Asteroid City"
Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 2023
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton ...
Genres: comedy, drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever."

Ratings
IMDb: 6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 73%
- Audience score 61%

​​🎬✔️ "The Sixth Sense"
Director/writer: M. Night Shyamalan
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1999
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams ...
Genres: drama, mystery, thriller

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 86%
- Audience score 90%

​​📖✔️ "The Farewell Waltz" | "The Farewell Party"
(🇨🇿 "Valčík na rozloučenou")
Author: Milan Kundera
Country: Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿
Publication date: 1972
Genres: fiction, novel

Denoscription on Goodreads:
"Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father.

And so begins a comedy in which, during five madcap days, events unfold with ever-increasing speed. Klima's beautiful, jealous wife; the nurse's equally jealous boyfriend; a fanatical gynecologist; a rich American, at once Don Juan and saint; and an elderly political prisoner who, just before his emigration, is holding a farewell party at the spa, are all drawn into this black comedy, as in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

As usual, Milan Kundera poses serious questions with a blasphemous lightness which makes us understand that the modern world has taken away our right to tragedy."

​​🎵💿 Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In a Room7 F760 (EP)
Released: July 28, 2023
Label: Warp
Genres: electronic, IDM, acid, techno

Denoscription on AllMusic:
"After releasing the splendid Collapse EP in 2018, Aphex Twin collaborated with synthesizer company Novation on a monosynth called AFX Station, and issued a few limited-edition EPs at some of his festival appearances. Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 is his first proper release of new material in five years, and while it felt like the veteran musician was pushing his sound forward on Collapse, here he's essentially in his comfort zone. "Blackbox Life Recorder 21f," the brief EP's first and longest track, starts out with twitchy beats, mellow synth chords, and soft melodies that sound like a sampled human voice; eventually, chunky breakbeats ricochet across the soundscape. Several different breaks pile up, and just as it feels like it's on the verge of overload, the beats pause for a moment in order to refresh, then smoothly return. Second track "zin2 test5" sets an elastic bassline and intricate beat patterns against soft streams of synth pads. If any element of the track was subtracted, it would sound too simple or underdeveloped, but it all fits together perfectly. Racing drums lead the charge on "in a room7 F760," which has a slight '80s action vibe in the beginning, until the synths become more fragmented and the drums are briefly whittled down to sharp, clanging edges, momentarily recalling the abrasive drill'n'bass style of late-'90s Aphex. "Blackbox Life Recorder 22 Parallax Mix" is a less melodic variation on the first track, also lacking its sense of balance. The EP isn't a game changer, but it bears enough of Aphex Twin's unmistakable personality to be worthwhile."

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YouTube Music
Apple Music

See also:
Aphex Twin - Drukqs (2001)

​​🎬✔️ "The Wind That Shakes the Barley"
Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Countries: Ireland 🇮🇪, UK 🇬🇧, Germany 🇩🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, Spain 🇪🇸, France 🇫🇷, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Year: 2006
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald ...
Genres: drama, war

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 90%
- Audience score 87%

​​📖✔️ "Siddhartha"
Author: Hermann Hesse
Country: Germany (Weimar Republic) 🇩🇪
Publication date: 1922
Genres: fiction, novel, philosophy, spirituality, religion

Denoscription on Goodreads:
"Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment, Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies - Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism - into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for true meaning."