really wanted to love this.. couldn’t get over how dated it felt. beautifully crafted and impeccable acting but missed the mark in many ways and absolutely did not stick the landing
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The House Is Black 1963
beautiful portrait of hope and sorrow, intimacy and anguish, communion and loss
the spirit of this film is imaginative: we are asked to find new meanings, new forms. complex and empathetic values and acts on full display, I found this very affecting
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Poor Things 2023
Genuinely perplexed at how this has been heralded as a feminist reclamation of.... sex? "womanhood"? completely unclear, at least to me.
Emma Stone revels in the full range of her talent, appearing fresh faced & made anew despite her on-screen veteran and multi-hyphenate status. Her character, Bella, reminds me of that feeble little horse lyric: "Steamroller you fuck like you're eating." Everything in her world is made sumptuous--from sex to food to language. And if it's not pleasurable, she spits it…
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Nickel Boys 2024
I couldn’t get over the queasy beauty of it all. kept chanting in my head “I love this” after the first scene with the crocodile bashing its tail against the red fluorescent concrete.
can’t describe the form of deep, ancient nausea this movie produced in me.
there are so many scenes I just know will cling to my mind…
the portion is pain
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