Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Such a legitimately entertaining and complex character driven story. Wish the ending didn’t feel as much like a backpedal of the character development, but I guess that’s life in the big city.
I believe there is an important difference between love stories and stories about love. Something as terrifyingly powerful as love, even with its infinite forms, is typically depicted anywhere from a picturesque ideal to a mess beyond comprehension. Past Lives strikes that liminal space with moments of tragic beauty in the perfect imperfections of adoration and awkwardness.
Throughout our lives we grow into countless versions of ourselves. It can be difficult to recognize who we were from who we have become.…
They do say that to be a woman is to perform…
Jokes aside, this movie captures something special about the pure joy of platonic relationships between women in a space of their own, the hilarity of men not understanding that value, and the inherent performance of gender.
The real lesson to take from this is that Viola Davis should be the maniacal villain in every movie.