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Girls Will Be Girls 2024
I was 18 twelve years ago yet every discovery Mira makes is so relatable. The judgemental teachers, the betraying friends, the confused yet fierce mother, the charming yet manipulative boyfriend and the curious young adult who is making sense of her heart and body. I especially love the title - goes for both Mira and Anila.
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All We Imagine as Light 2024
I went in without watching any trailer or reading any plot so I could be completely consumed by the movie and not any assumptions. And that worked well for me!
I could see yearning being captured so beautifully. The music does something wonderful - makes the moments very fleeting. Seeing brown bodies in sexual, nonsexual intimate ways.
Wish Chhaya Kadam’s character had more story - loved every time she was on screen.
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My interpretation of the drowning man subplot was that it was a dream sequence in the end where she was imagining her light by thinking what her husband would think.
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Aftersun 2022
It was difficult to watch the first half of the movie. Maybe this is my work as a therapist where I’ve dealt with themes of abuse or perhaps my own childhood where my mother made me hyper aware of the physical distance with my father as ‘no man is to be trusted’. I was on edge wondering whether this is a film when the father would abuse his daughter. Only when I was reassured by the movie synopsis did I…
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