2025 Goal: Watch 100 movies (25% complete)
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This movie was based on Luc Besson’s real relationship with a 15 year old girl when he was in his 30s.
What a freak!
Saw this at a small indie cinema while sleep deprived (likely as Lynch intended) and found it very weird and nauseating.
The set and costume design here are perfect. I felt like I lived in the movie and when I left the cinema was disappointed with the reality of outside. From the coffee-and-newspaper cluttered New York apartments to Bob Dylan's disgusting fingernails, the experience of Bob's signature atmosphere is there.
On reflection I think that is what the movie is really about, too. The atmosphere of it all. Really, scenes just happen, and events and dates are muddled, and the songs…