felt intentional & well-made & really knew how to make me cry; but also felt like the central characters themselves were quite empty, to be filled in by the viewer. them being childhood friends made the obliqueness of themselves & their relationship a bit more plausible to me (at least i find that other people’s long friendships often look that way from the outside – you wonder what exactly drives these people to one another and whether they are indeed still close simply…
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Farewell Amor 2020
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very talented, though it sometimes felt a little too all over the place. i enjoyed the “same story from different perspectives, new details coming in” approach, think it worked beautifully here. the distance & time-space grief & how both walter & esther have changed & are so much not the people they remember loving. how it’s not anyone’s fault (& just like. the endless things beyond themselves here – the war, america as it is, the complexities of immigration, etc) but they both do…
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You I Love 2004
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i cannot stress it enough: this is not a good film by any possible metric and i had an incredibly fun time watching it. it’s, like, camp?
its jumps between comedy and melodrama. its acting, especially early on (maybe i got used to it?), that made me think i really took the actors i’d seen before for granted. the weird sex everyone is having (timofei’s commitment to vera’s food thing. whatever he and uloomji are up to. solving your relationship…
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The Birds Sang in a Tranquil Place 1986
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certainly worthwhile! an interesting & original plot & question it asks (can a person change other people’s lives doing what they think is right but without feeling?) which cannot really be answered (it’s the girl crying because it’s sort of a betrayal – you teach me to love my homeland but you’re bored of this place! (and you can return to the city but i might have to stay here my whole life; you tell me i should love this life but…
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