Ava Dettling

Ava Dettling

from the measureless depths of a woman’s emotions:

Favorite films

  • Coraline
  • Wristcutters: A Love Story
  • Before Sunrise
  • Y Tu Mamá También

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  • Beau Is Afraid

  • Problemista

    ★★★★

  • The Monkey

  • Black Panther

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  • Midnight in Paris

    Midnight in Paris

    ★★★½

    I paid 6 euros to see this in a little hole in the wall cinema in Paris. Every time the parents or Ines would insult the French the theater giggled. How lovely to walk out of the cinema into the very streets this movie so beautifully depicted.

    side note: its a shame i watched irreversible after this, which gave me such a different impression of paris and "midnight strolls." you can't have one without the other i guess.

  • Irreversible

    Irreversible

    ½

    TW: r*pe, SA, general gaspar noé attrocities

    I believe with my whole heart that Gaspar Noé should be in jail, or at least taken off the indie film bro pedestal of “edgy” cinema that he has seemed to have found himself on. 

    I couldn’t finish this movie, and I honestly don’t care to. I’ve seen enough to form my own opinion. There’s a lot of talk about whether topics such as rape and darker human trauma should be portrayed in…

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  • Magic Mike's Last Dance

    Magic Mike's Last Dance

    ★★★

    did NOT top moose’s rain dance in step up

  • La Collectionneuse

    La Collectionneuse

    ★★★

    89 minutes of men being mad a girl fucks and they don’t. These ugly-ass man children use the endearing nickname slut and little bitch about as often as they use Haydees name. This is the only one of Rohmers moral tales that I’ve watched, and the supposed moral frequently escaped me. But I think that’s kind of the point, rohmers understated narrative and Nestor Almendros’ non-flashy cinematography made the watching experience less actively inviting—like you had to work to pay…

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