Beauty

  • A little life – a little review

    I have cried so much while reading this book, that I had to stop reading because my tears would get in the way. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, very much recommended. No spoilers.

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  • Review: Lost River

    Every once in a while you see something that won’t let you go. That stays with you for days in a row. That makes you want to be quiet about. An experience that changes your perspective on (the) world. Something which is perhaps only possible through and because of art. Here an attempt to review,…

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  • Comment – 12 Years a Slave

    Is it possible to comment on something, when one only has a specific point of view? Possible in the sense of positively existing, non-superfluous. Are words lost, like so many moments fleeting in time, thoughts formed by the world, by what is already known, instead of forming the world. Still, the value is in the…

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  • Optekening van een ervaring: Na de Repetitie & Persona (Toneelgroep Amsterdam)

    Een onmogelijk verslag van de aanschouwing van twee toneelstukken samengebracht op één avond. Zonder spoilers, aangezien iedereen deze stukken voor zichzelf moet gaan bekijken. Afgelopen woensdag mocht ik twee juweeltjes aanschouwen, op het toneel gezet door Toneelgroep Amsterdam onder leiding van Ivo van Hove. Twee filmscripts van Ingmar Bergman, twee existentiële drama’s over identiteit, leugen…

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