Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Really enjoyed it. There was obviously some slight world building where I was ??? and I think the beginning could have been slowed down a little to make the dynamic more believable but it was actually quite funny. and i think for me the strength of the film came with it going beyond both masochistic sex being degrading to women and also beyond it being 'empowering' -- it just was, and she worked through her shame and was able to…
refuse a rating but something about a very tight movie that mirrors the beats of a short story always does it for me -- especially when the actors (for the most part) seem totally immersed and human but also operating within the very small logic of the narrative, where the director catches the atmosphere of a very specific world, and ofc shot on film means doing the impossible: making the world college sports look artistic and inviting
Really beautiful and meditative;
slice of life about love and community and building a tenuous but meaningful life, even when everything feels precarious. was pretty slow; watched with german subtitles so that kept me more engaged than maybe I would have otherwise been. Such an interesting look at Mumbai and the working people of. someone on reddit said they felt like it captured the texture of the city, which i agree with