All We Knew Is Dead

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It Was Just an Accident (2025) - Jafar Panahi

It wasn't his fault.. It was an accident! What is destined to happen happens! If God placed it on our path, there has to be a reason.

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Die Holländerinnen (2025) - Dorothee Elmiger

Aber der Horror, der Horror liege naturgemäß außerhalb der Sprache, ja, er sei, wenn man so wolle, ihr Gegenteil, ihr Ende, und sie müsse deshalb auch jetzt, in diesem Moment, noch einmal scheitern, wenn sie ihn zu formulieren, zu benennen versuche, könne ihn nur umkreisen wie ein schwarzes Loch, einen reißenden Strudel.

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) - Olga Tokarczuk

You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves… And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.

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Le pays des autres (2020) - Leïla Slimani

Elle l'amusait, lui qui ne savait pas rire avec ses dents, qui mettait toujours ses mains devant sa bouche comme s'il trouvait que la joie était, de toutes les passions, la plus honteuse et la plus impudique.

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Teorema (1968) - Pier Paolo Pasolini

Mi accorgo ora che io non ho mai avuto alcun interesse reale per nulla.

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Amarga Navidad (2026) - Pedro Almodóvar

Estás siendo complaciente contigo mismo.

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“We’re not human. We’re just on vacation here.”

The Lure (2015) dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska

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Tremor (2023) - Teju Cole

I have begun to experience the museum itself as a zone of sustained shocks. These are shocks that issue out of a feeling of moral whiplash: the meticulousness of curatorial practice on the one hand and those dark pools of human blood on the other.

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Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires (1961) - Agnes Varda

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Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020) - Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross

You had a nice place here.

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Taris, roi de l'eau (1931) - Jean Vigo

On n’apprend pas a nager par chance.

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The Substance (2024) - Coralie Fargeat

It gets harder each time, to remember that you still deserve… to exist.

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Água Viva (1973) - Clarice Lispector

Não quero ter a terrível limitação de quem vive apenas do que é passível de fazer sentido. Eu não: quero é uma verdade inventada. // I don’t want to have the terrible limitation of those who live merely from what can make sense. Not I: I want an invented truth.

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Tiny Furniture (2010) - Lena Dunham

I don't think we need to talk about all our issues, you know?

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Bye Bye Brazil (1980) - Carlos Diegues

A gente é feito roda, sanfoneiro, só se equilibra em movimento. Se parar, fodeu, a gente cai.

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Kontinental ’25 ( 2025) - Radu Jude

Of course, legally, I'm not guilty, that is out of the question, but you know how it is, people shoot the piano player.

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Doctor Zhivago (1965) - David Lean

I shouldn't admire it now. I should find it absurdly personal. Don't you agree? Feelings, insights, affections… it's suddenly trivial now.