indiazarah

indiazarah

Favorite films

  • The Worst Person in the World
  • Paris, Texas
  • Babyteeth
  • Before Sunrise

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  • Mekong Hotel

    ★★½

  • Witches

    ★★★

  • Petrol

  • Mustang

    ★★★★

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  • Mekong Hotel

    Mekong Hotel

    ★★½

    — The water isn’t listening.
    — Who will it listen to? 

    Gentle yet jarring. Just as the spirit of its subjects will take many forms the spirit of the film does too. 

    I will admit I felt very lost for a lot of it.

    Very beautiful guitar playing.

  • Witches

    Witches

    ★★★

    "Every woman is a witch, and every witch needs a coven!"

    Frank, compassionate and essential insight from extremely courageous women. A compelling thesis overall. I would have loved for Sankey to zoom in to her individual experience from the very beginning before zooming out to relate it to girlhood, womanhood, and witches more broadly. I loved the different perspectives of medical expertise, lived experience, and academic interest.

    Preferred the talking heads parts over the film clip compilations. I liked seeing…

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  • Matt and Mara

    Matt and Mara

    ★★

    Movies about ambiguous friendships and rekindled connections are so my thing but this didn't fully do it for me. It’s not that the connection between Matt and Mara wasn't believable. It’s that Mara's relationship with her husband wasn't. Sure, the development of that relationship is not the film's priority. Still, it felt so neglected that the stakes of the mutual extramarital attraction just weren't high enough for me. Past Lives and Take This Waltz are better illustrations of a protagonist…

  • The Craft

    The Craft

    ★½

    the outfits were so good though