As a movie? Fine. Every beat felt kinda predictable. I spent the whole movie knowing exactly what was going to happen next. Even the deus ex machina character felt a little unrealistic, though I'm in love with her. Natalia Dyer is really good, though - she's got such good facial expressions.
As a capturing of an experience? Jesus Christ. No pun intended. The extent of my mother's somewhat apathetic Cradle Catholicism meant that I went on a daylong retreat as…
i wish literally anything else in this movie was as interesting as june
utterly obsessed with this - especially the depiction of an older trans woman who falls in love after a difficult life and is never the butt of the joke. we rarely even see older cis women as characters like this, so the fact that this woman is trans? in the 90s??? genuinely groundbreaking. and for sure it's got some "product of its time" issues - a weird racist subplot, Bernadette gets deadnamed a few times, words we wouldn't say today…
