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Recent reviews

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  Cover Girl 1944

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  [following the thread of the poster on candela's wall in last night's viewing of 'women on the verge of a nervous breakdown' obviously]

  "well, she's kind of a funny kid, rusty... she's sore because she's got diamonds in her feet." // "i've never seen such a silly pearl in all my life!"

  a treat!! the songs are for the most part overwritten but i was struck by the especially delicate care given to the way they land in a human,…

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  Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025 1

  ahhhhhhhh what a fucking wonderful gift of a movie!!!!! i love women i love being a woman even (especially?) when it's Like This.

  need rossy and, let's be honest, also antonio's wardrobes. also i saw a little too much of myself in pepa walking around the penthouse with everyone else passed out mutter-monologuing to herself

  
  i have a feeling 2025 is going to be the year of almodóvar for me, let's fucking go

Popular reviews

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  Popeye 1980

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 21 Jan 2025 4

  a joy to share this with the whole willow st crew plus tim, none of whom had seen it before (even if thirty seconds in beth was like "......is this a musical??" in such a tone i genuinely thought she might get up and leave)

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  The Portrait of a Lady 1996

  ★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  a lot to appreciate in this even if it left me with the sense there might be some pieces missing... love the stylization, *love* the dream/fantasy sequences (i honestly wish there had been more of them), huge huge cast obviously (including a smallish but memorable shelley duvall role)... what trips me up is that so much of the isabel character pre-marriage (including retrospective references to how she's changed) seems constructed via other people's glowing descriptions rather than being demonstrated. i…