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  • Anora

    ★★★★★

  • Past Lives

    ★★★★★

  • The Whale

    ★★★★★

  • Promising Young Woman

    ★★★½

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  • Past Lives

    Past Lives

    ★★★★★

    The conversations this sparked after. Nostalgic. Lingering. Healing.
    They were tender things to behold.
    They were tender things to have lived 

    // 
    See you then
    I’m proud to remember to love today

    //
    Raw Reaction Review:

    Holy fuck the framing. frame within a frame. 

    Motifs of rain but sun on the day you dream 

    The color grade having such bright colors but in such a cool tone 

    Parallels on parallels

    Oh oh oh don’t do it. Framing separating of characters.…

  • The Whale

    The Whale

    ★★★★★

    That was the type of experience that would make my english teachers catch my whole attention and heart with fascination. That is literature.

    Complex characters have always been my favorite role to execute. Brining such detailed life to breath and having it intertwine with so many other stories is like capturing the human soul in frames of a film.

    GEEKED out of my mind with mainly only one set being used. Dialogue based and carried with a rhythm of a…

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  • The Florida Project

    The Florida Project

    ★★★★★

    For Mooney, everything in life is a sweet dream. For the audience, it’s one grueling beauty of a nightmare 

    Color grade

    Raw cinema
    Parallels portraits 
    Slow death of innocence

    bittersweet was named in hindsight

    wow. im sitting there, watching this, and it’s so…but she’s laughing, nothings holding back her laugh. oh sweet laughs 

    moento mori mooney

  • Promising Young Woman

    Promising Young Woman

    ★★★½

    I remember seeing the trailer for this when it first dropped and being worried I had spoiled a large chunk of the film. Always glad to stand corrected 🙂‍↕️

    •trailer only gives away maybe first 10-15 min. After that the film continues to grow really well but act II was probably my favorite in all the film. —> Even with the details given before I found myself caught in the methodical unraveling that was happening before me and saw a…