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  Poor Things 2023

  Watched 05 Feb 2024

  Didn’t make it past 30 minute so can’t give a rating. Fair enough I could have looked it up but I don’t think reviews or the trailer suggested the extremely sexual and disturbing nature of the film. It wasn’t for me.

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  Broker 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2023

  A melancholy film which examined abandonment and estrangement from parents under slightly different circumstances through each of it’s characters.

  Ultimately a much more heartwarming ending that expected and like Shoplifters contained some very warm scenes throughout.

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  Women Talking 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2023

  Very moving film about women discussing their future after life in their religious colony becomes intolerable. As you would expect from the title, it is an extremely dialogue heavy film.

  Does and incredible job of making its audience feel uncomfortable in a constructive way. The themes and discussions of the film were very deep and broad and the film is a vehicle for some very well considered polemic. 

  The continuous inserting of uncomfortable scenes of  the aftermath of violence keeps…

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