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Beau Travail 1999
The majesty of it all just hit me all of a sudden. The choreography of desire and resentment. The blues and the tans. PERFECTION.
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The Double Life of Véronique 1991
This will always be my perfect movie. So soft and fleeting. Veronique is the gossamer thread that holds it all together.
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The Last Showgirl 2024
Just gorgeous. Probably one of my favorites of the year. I loved the way it was shot, the fuzziness and ephemerality of it. I think it effectively captures the way Shelly’s vision of her profession, and perhaps even the world, belongs to a bygone era (maybe it never really even existed?). Everything seems to be fading away in this film; everything is suffused with the wistful and fleeting nature of Shelly’s dreams, her disappointed expectations and lost illusions, and her…
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Mala Noche 1986
A film about unrequited desire, mediated by the peculiar sense of nighttime decay in Portland, OR. Van Sant lays bare the sexual, racial, and class dynamics that lead these errant lives to move like parallel lines—together without, however, fully making contact.
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