but we will travel past the beating rain
and be graceful, after all
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Erin's Guide to Kissing Girls 2022
appreciated this endlessly and face hurt from smiling towards the end - how many 8th grade queer films that do not make queerness a sad, terrible, catastrophic thing are there? willing to be generous towards it, too, and will be revisiting
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The Salesman 2016
Needless to say, my expectations of this film were very high, both based on seeing Farhadi's previous work and, of course, the Oscar.
However, the film is inherently problematic. There is an interesting, challenging film lying somewhere in this narrative - the unspeakability of rape in Iran; sexual violence; women who get dubbed prostitutes because of the rumours in their building; and, indeed, male privilege.
The Salesman does not go there. Instead, it focuses on the impotence of the manβ¦
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