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Certain Women 2016
did enjoy realist take on random womens lives. but being to the purpose of emotional impotency felt anticlimactic. which may be intentional but i am not sure i agree with the effect
intimate portraits of domestic and career close analyses is clearly politically loaded and
actually i dont know what i am trying to say
exploits misery of the lesbian char from the deep south, less white presenting than kristen stewart? dont know
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The Handmaiden 2016
weirdass male gazey take on lesbianism and hidekos fake butch moment at the end kind of made me gag
thought maybe this wouldnt be as bad as i had heard because it does have some interesting posturing to do with colonialism but nevermind
probs interesting to do analysis on weird and categorically incorrect takes on queerness within postcolonial media. not that i’m even 100 percent on whether this is even a take or just retrospective fetishisation of context of suffering which is never properly touched on bc aristocratic focus
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Betty Blue 1986
rabid sexual energy is fuelled by spiralling mental illness! very male gazey and doesn’t satisfactorily explain why betty is so desperate to stay pregnant halfway through despite her otherwise roguefem persona and prioritising of zorg. but whatever
good commentary on appropriating female identity when zorg wears bettys red dress. he is a beautiful woman
cinematography was nice to look at idk camera terms yet though
zorg and bettys theme song sweet if a little bit on the nose (sweet melody…
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
feminism is when you spend longer dusting your doll collection than you do stabbing some guy
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