kayfawwwkes

kayfawwwkes

Favorite films

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Roma
  • The Shape of Water
  • The House That Jack Built

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  • The United States vs. Billie Holiday
  • On the Count of Three
  • I Care a Lot
  • Pillow Talk

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  • What Happened, Miss Simone?

    What Happened, Miss Simone?

    ★★½

    Nina deserves 5 stars but the documentary only 2.5 and those 2.5 are for the footage unseen before this documentary. It could be the deepened lens of understanding we hold on complex trauma and abuse as a society now but this was a miss for me. The way they allowed her abuser to openly discuss and validate his reasons for abuse without any justice for her- then painted her out to be the villain after so much of her own…

  • The Love Witch

    The Love Witch

    ★★★★

    woof. I had to sleep on it- left stuck in thought loops when the credits rolled. First thought being “what in the actual fuck” second “uhhhhhh” third “were the modern background details sprinkled in (i.e. trish driving a 2018 beamer while the main character and the surrounding scene had every single detail transported back in time with the set ) due to a low budget or a brilliant intentional detail” fourth “that was visually stunning and I want a teal…

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