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The Silences of the Palace 1994
an hour into the movie and i couldn't stop crying. by the end i was just weeping.
i keep thinking about the innocence that's soured by being touched when we don't want to be touched, looked at when we don't want to be looked at. the violence of that. the things we're afraid to ask our mothers and our grandmothers. the things they're afraid to tell us. the rhyme you find in race and class and gender. france and tunisia.…
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Blonde Crazy 1931
god i love this movie. a pre-code con artist romcom. the odd dynamic between blondell and cagney works so well. their chemistry is so good.
the performances dip into naturalism at times. the moment that strikes me the most is when they're discussing their rather complicated relationship. cagney gets exasperated and uncomfortable and says "I've wanted you since the first day I saw you, but if I can't have you I'll have somebody else... Oh, c'mon we're getting too serious…
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