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99tenerife

Favorite films

  • Y Tu Mamá También
  • Mysterious Skin
  • Out of the Blue
  • Happy Together

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  • The Promised Neverland

    ★★★★

  • Happy Together

    ★★★★★

  • Chungking Express

    ★★★★

  • sex, lies, and videotape

    ★★★★

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  • The Promised Neverland

    The Promised Neverland

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Happy Together

    Happy Together

    ★★★★★

    Gay boys please stop your games. You love each other so much.

    Blurring the lines of culture, love, lust, and testosterone, Happy Together is a complex tale told so candidly. And it is bursting at the seams with, “It.” With yearning, with frustration, with color, and with Kar-wai.

    Terrific, tragic, and deserving.

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  • Chungking Express

    Chungking Express

    ★★★★

    Cold but warm, rainy but sunny

    The beats pass like a Crichton novel, the colors bloom like a Hitchcock, and it’s not the shutter speeds alone that remind that this is Kar-wai. He treats this plot, and by extension its audience, with such respect—even the wrong acts are right. And he’s so wry with it. 

    In the midst of loneliness you can still find love; it’s just “a local shower.”

  • The House of the Devil

    The House of the Devil

    ★★★

    This started out so strong before promptly falling on its face in the end. West seems to have this habit; Maxxxine similarly stumbles. At least in that one I can see more of a case for an intentional genre flick, but part of it all just feels like he’s smugly doubling down on the same thing. Do his other talents make up for this?

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