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Loev 2015

★★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2020 1

Under the guise of being a gay romance, it was pretty obvious that this is a film about rape. I don't agree with the other reviewers in that it is somehow underplaying that or romanticising it. Sexual violence and how one responds to it isn't played out on a script. It is intensely personal, and relationally changes our interactions with others and ourselves.
The film doesn't focus on 'loev,' rather, it poses the question, 'what if the person you love…
Marriage Story 2019

★★★★½ Watched 07 Dec 2019

Marriage Story confronts a part of me that lives in my past, and a part I am yet to meet. It is painful and hopeful in the way it portrays how romantic relationships--emotional, periodic, and stark--fold unto themselves. There is a lot of space for forgiveness, and there is space for grieving a deep loss. There is the life you build, and the one you want. There is the person you have given yourself to, and the person you have secured. And after all of that, there is you.

Call Me by Your Name 2017

★★★★ Watched 13 Oct 2017

the word that keeps slipping into my head to describe this movie is lush-- from the cinematography to the flourishing greenery to the sensuousness of youth.
everything is so essentially it's 'own' and so irreplaceable even in the smallest possible way. I walked out feeling as if I'd had my heartbroken, and in a way, I had
God's Own Country 2017

★★★★★ Rewatched 03 Feb 2018

On a second watch I could only focus on the searing need to touch. The emphasis on hands and the spaces between two bodies, distinct and separate, was so telling. The empty spaces filled with an electric longing that is so universal in its rendering of desire and love. I have been Gheorghe, next to a person, unsure of whether or not to touch them; I have been John, unable to relax, the tension waiting to subside with touch. Sons…