I liked the heavy buster keaton hand in this. your past mistakes don’t have to define you if you don’t want them to!
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Russian Ark 2002
this was playing at film forum in 2015 and my dorm was only a 10 minute walk away so we spontaneously decided to catch a PM showing, literally running there with minutes to spare. I don’t remember much but maybe it’s time to revisit the ark. you think you will arrive there, unspoiled, pristine, a privileged traveler. but actually the ark will touch you and then move past you, unbridled.
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Anora 2024
was honestly such a letdown for me... mikey madison is so vivacious and vibrant and bursting with life and sean baker does not know how to do anything with anora besides throw her into a looney tunes uncut gems 24 hour bender. a life unlived for a promising character is more tragic than any working-class-trauma-p0rn that he made up to sell the grit of this story
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Past Lives 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
when the credits rolled i could hear people around me sniffing and crying (a girl was literally sobbing behind me) and i was like, did we watch the same movie because i felt... nothing? idk, great gowns, beautiful gowns but...
two things i would have changed:
1) set the story in seoul so nora actually has a reason to yearn/romanticize/agonize? for the life that she could've had. homegirl literally has no current conflict(s) in her life. she makes money doing…Translated from by