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Spencer 2021
“You can be a hot mess express and still leave the world better than you found it.” – You’re Wrong About (Princess Diana)
Spencer is personal and overwhelming, a feverish fantasy that imprisons Diana, forcing her to escape. Her story is transformed into a mythical confrontation between past, present and a desolating future that allows her to move forward stronger and surer of herself.
On Christmas Eve 1991, Diana is the last to arrive at Sandringham. William and Harry are…
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The Bridges of Madison County 1995
The Bridges of Madison County is domestic and gentle, almost too intimate to be portrayed on camera and to be seen by so many.
An Iowa housewife, home alone while her family travels to the Illinois State Fair, experiences four days of adventurous bliss after she meets a photographer in town to take (no, make) pictures of the famed covered bridges of Madison County for National Geographic; it’s the sketch of an escapist fantasy, but that’s not what Eastwood focuses…
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
i recently got into cooking after years of convincing myself i’d be no good at it. i used to be so afraid of touching meat, of using knives, of turning on the stove.
what never occurred to me is how much i’d love cooking. the act of preparing the meat, of chopping an onion, of adjusting the flame. every day i do it, it’s the one part of my day where i feel like i can focus on what’s right…
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Here 2024
the older i get, the more i think about the passage of time. every conversation i have nowadays seems to contain some variation of “time flies”. i lose count of how many times i’ve said, “i don’t know how it’s been a year”, “isn't it crazy that was this time last year?”, “where did the time go?”. i don’t know what happens in between these inadvertent bookends — today, a year ago and today, today. supposedly, life. the moments we…
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Melancholia 2011
Depression and anxiety are sisters. One is numbness, the other is restlessness. What unites them are their unexplainable causes and a lack of control over the situation; it’s looking for the cause and trying to control it, and then sinking further and further until you have no more place to sink.
Melancholia is an exploration of depression and anxiety through the lens of a dysfunctional family dealing with impending doom. Split in two parts, it follows two sisters: Justine, who…
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The Reader 2008
The Reader is confused. At its heart is the relationship between Michael, a teenager, and Hanna, an older woman. Years after their initial affair, he is a law student and attends a trial that holds her accountable for her past as a Nazi prison guard. He realizes that she’s keeping a secret to the detriment of her freedom and doesn’t intervene. They reconnect when she’s in prison, partly; he sends her recordings of him reading books but doesn’t answer her…
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