Viscerally painful and so so important. Had me on the verge of tears for 2/3 of the runtime, if not fully crying. Fernanda Torres gave an outstanding, heavy performance in an outstandingly heavy film. Bravo.
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The Room Next Door 2024
Utterly Almodovar in color, aesthetics, score, and even drama, yet there’s just a little piece of something missing for me personally. Having two of the greats, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, sharing a screen, yet at moments having some of the most stilted and cold dialogue in any Almodovar film. Having said that, the awkwardness is balanced with scenes of complete tenderness and maturity and great emotional depth that make it hard to dislike this.
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The Whale 2022
This was incredibly hard to watch. Not because it was bad nor because of the, might I say, sometimes extremely obvious attempts at making one gawk at the magnitude of Charlie’s body, but more so because of how heavy and raw it felt throughout the whole film. At first glance, of course it touches on subjects of depression, deteriorating mental health, and addictive behavior (in this case, food addiction as a way to cope for the former) but it delves…
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Turning Red 2022
I don’t quite know what to say except that I’m floored by just how much I absolutely adored this movie. Captures awkward preteens/adolescence, sorority, female friendship and generational trauma perfectly. So fun and cute and just so relatable
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