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  Review by Bettina ★★★★

  I feel like I just got back from partying with a bunch of women from the pictures in a late 80s high school French textbook! Just talking about bodies and food and love and clothes in wicker chairs, surrounded by hanging plants and Laura Ashley prints. What a fun movie to hang out in!

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  Review by anniesully ★★★★★

  Really great at capturing how natural conversations occur between women.

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  Review by evanclausen ★★★★★

  DONNA

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  Review by inzhu ★★★★

  I think I’m ready now. I think I don’t have to be alone anymore.

  Those are the last lines of the film that are said by the character and ‘observer’ Martine before she reaches down to get what I think is a meringue sitting on top a plate of other meringues and, the most beloved treat of all the women here, chocolate chip cookies. As much as Martine is the observer, and a great one too, she equally shares the same amount of personal and emotional recollections and associations she has of her disordered eating as do all the other women in this film. I don’t know if I’ve watched such a movie like this before, certainly many ones with…

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  Review by bira ★★★★

  Written and directed by a white man who dedicated this movie to his mother who struggled with eating disorders and the story revolves around white women in their mid 30s/40s i was appalled that toxic relationship with food is such a major and common thing that these women face daily. Jaglom’s portrayal of white women in particular highlights their internalized struggles with societal norms, self-worth, and cultural pressures, for many of the characters, food represents not only sustenance but also a way to assert control or surrender to external expectations and i think he did a great on doing the exploration of food, women, and the complexities of identity and body image.
  The raw and honest dialogue help us to view how women’s relationship with food is diverse but often reveals deeper issues.

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  Review by Rowan ★

  WHATCHA’ GONNA DO, BROTHER, WHEN JAGLOMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU?!

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  Review by zzoottzz ★★★★½

  As honest as cinema gets.

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  Review by A Merrit ★★★★★

  Even if this movie is still a bit heavy handed in it's themes, Jaglom does take a step back and doesn't make an appearance in this one. This is just upper middle class women talking all in the context of food and how it controls their lives. It's warm and pleasing to look at, with it's naturalistic take on the sears catalogue look. It's got some amusing and even funny bits, but it really goes places. Once you have women being interviewed about how they saw food as children and how that changed this really starts hitting hard. It's a movie about a lot of things, but eating disorders really boil out as an unending unstoppable force in this. Frances Bergen as the grandmotherly empath of the bunch really works, as does Gwen Welles self destructive spiral.

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  Review by alice

  warm and vicious and wonderful, 

  really loved the other girls sitting in the background of the talking heads bits

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  Review by Catalina B ★★★★★

  i’ve been trying to come up with the right words and i cant. 
  because i’ve never felt something so real.
  and it’s terrifying.

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  Review by seaweedmaiden47 ★★★★★

  the dialogue in this movie makes you feel like you’re right there in it and somehow, using only the context of food, it perfectly captures the complexity of the relationship between a girl and her mother. plus all of the wicker, the house, the tarot cameo, and the beautiful clothes make this movie really aesthetically pleasing

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  Review by stargrovestamos ★★★

  “I think I’m still looking for a man who can excite me as much as a baked potato.”

  Preach.