Mele Girma

Mele Girma

saturday mornings are when i do my best watching <3

Favorite films

  • Babette's Feast
  • Problemista
  • Shithouse
  • Moonstruck

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  • Caramel

    ★★★★

  • Perfect Blue

    ★★★½

  • Every Little Thing

    ★★★

  • No Other Land

    ★★★★½

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  • Perfect Blue

    Perfect Blue

    ★★★½

    holy fuuuuuck??? insane this was made almost 30 years ago, it feels so prescient.

  • Every Little Thing

    Every Little Thing

    ★★★

    this lowered my blood pressure :,)

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  • Civil War

    Civil War

    How does one get their cortisol levels back down after reaching these heights? It’s been an hour since the movie ended and I still feel on high alert. This movie is a warning but against what? 

    I hate that every journalist of color that we came to love was killed by the unidentified militia. Whatever point that decision was trying to make, however true it may or may not be, it was one that lost me for the rest of the film.

  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★½

    It feels like a miracle that this film was made. There is something wordless and magical that the archival footage captured, tracing the lines between the Amals then and now.

    Seeing the vigor in Basel’s father’s old protest footage, the feeling and freedom in young Basel’s movements, and what that evolved into for both of them in order to survive. Every scene of the old footage transposed over the new brought fresh tears to my eyes. I felt the weight…

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