Elena Manes

Elena Manes

just hanging out in other people's lives

cynic, pedantic, validation seeker

Favorite films

  • Fantasia
  • American Beauty
  • Amélie
  • Cinema Paradiso

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  • Anora

    ★★★★½

  • Talking About the Weather

    ★★★

  • The Holdovers

    ★★★★½

  • Manolito Four Eyes

    ★★★★

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  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★½

    A powerful ending signalling the world can be a purely transactional jungle.

    At first, I was left thinking the movie didn’t go deep enough into Ani’s history, but the recurrent hints at her annoyance when called Anora are powerful enough to understand her relationship patterns: alienation, loneliness, and hard origins. Surprisingly deep movie.

  • Talking About the Weather

    Talking About the Weather

    ★★★

    Germans talking about the weather so they don't have to discuss the slightest emotion. Feels like a documentary.

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  • Love Lies Bleeding

    Love Lies Bleeding

    ★★★½

    Quite realistic portrait of lesbian intensity.

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life

    ★★★★★

    First, EAT THE RICH.

    Second, grief is a bitch.

    Third, life is worth living.

    More comforting that other movies on suicide. A hug to everyone wishing an angel would have saved their loved one. Abandonment, guilt, anger and regret pass, love stays.

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