Snow piercer meets okja and many fun accents and absurd overall tone. A delight
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The Last Showgirl 2024
Such a Coppola film with heavy Sean Bakerisms. I loved how she couldn’t defend herself anymore. Poignant meditation on being a woman and mother
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Minari 2020
“you’re crying over anchovies?”
I must’ve cried 7 times throughout this film. I saw my own family’s history played out on screen before me... A husband blind with ambition (my agong, my dad’s father) whisking away his wife (my ama, my dad’s mother) to a completely foreign place. I saw in David my dad’s desperation to assimilate to american culture, preferring corn syrup-filled lollipops to water chestnuts from grandma. I saw my own shyness around my grandmother; for her smell,…
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