Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
damn i guess she was looking pretty……severed…
patricia arquette i am no better than a man
had me in the first half ngl…
first half was so hopeful and achingly beautiful that it brought me to actual tears…5/5
second half became increasingly difficult to defend from the “going to israel” to find a better life despite them making a valid point about being “jewish enough” regardless of where they are, eventually culminating in an ending quote so inexplicable it stunned me for a moment…3/5 u cannot be anti-capitalist and anti-colonial and yet somehow also zionist???
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
at its core, this film claims to be a woman’s journey to sexual acceptance, knowing that her deepest desires could lead to her greatest fear (losing her family, job, etc.)
however, this tension that supposedly forms the basis for this toxic (but not in an enjoyable way 😔) relationship between the two leads is not compelling because 1) it is unclear how much romy actually cares for her family as people beyond what they represent to her (throwing a few…