With Erupcja in US theaters this week, director Pete Ohs shares 11 films that influenced his “anti-romantic” comedy starring Charli xcx, Lena Góra, Will Madden, and Jeremy O. Harris. Read the details for Ohs’s accompanying notes for each pick. Before Sunrise The romance + an American filmmaker doing something in Europe. Stranger Than Paradise The cuts to black, the simplicity, the style. Alice in the Cities The way a film can give the audience a chance to experience different places. The Zone of Interest Polish-adjacent cinema. The close ups of flowers and dissolving to a block of color. Y Tu Mamá También Apparently Cuarón also arrived at his voice over via Jules et Jim + playful adventure + homoerotic love triangles. Thelma & Louise Two women with a strong connection making their own rules. Provincial Actors Polish cinema. The raw purity of a first feature. All These Sleepless Nights First time I saw this I didn’t even realize it was Polish. This is a cinematic, youthful, modern Warsaw. A Woman Is a Woman Colors! Playfulness! A complete disregard of rules! La Pointe Courte More first film naïveté and freedom. A young couple at the end of a relationship traveling to a town and walking around ✅✅✅✅ ...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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