jessalmonte

jessalmonte

Favorite films

  • Challengers
  • Romeo + Juliet
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Little Women

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  • Challengers

    ★★★★★

  • Au Revoir les Enfants

    ★★★★★

  • Wild at Heart

    ★★★★★

  • Apocalypse Now

    ★★★★★

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  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★★

    IM DEFROSTED.

  • Au Revoir les Enfants

    Au Revoir les Enfants

    ★★★★★

    Words truly fail to service the profound feeling I experienced at the end of this film. I watched this yesterday in a class I’m taking this semester about Vichy during World War II. It’s one thing to learn and read about things like French collaboration with Germans, networks of survival Jewish people in France developed and used, antisemitic rhetoric of the time, etc. but it’s another to see it visually. The scale of the pain and evil cannot be overstated,…

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  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★★★

    There is something to be said about the ways fear and shame and self hatred fester and manifest. The ways in which you will allow half-love or transactional love that only hurt you, especially in queer relationships, especially in times and places where it is the worst thing you can be — Queer. Queer in sexuality and taste and physicality. 

    Lee remains awake. He is cold. He shivers with withdrawal and with needy eyes. Lee is the ultimate outsider, even…

  • Red, White & Royal Blue

    Red, White & Royal Blue

    ★★★★★

    UPON A REWATCH THIS IS A 5/5. Next one is Baron Trump and Greta Thunberg (mollys idea)