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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  • Mulholland Drive

  • The Ballad of Wallis Island

    ★★★½

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    ★★★★★

  • Opus

    ★★

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  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive

    Soooo suspenseful and wild but by hour 2 it felt like homework

  • The Ballad of Wallis Island

    The Ballad of Wallis Island

    ★★★½

    So endearing!! The second thing I’ve watched in the last 24 hours featuring Black birders (The Residence, anyone?)

    Belcourt had a q&a after and I learned Carrie Mulligan is married to Marcus Mumford? Surprising. The music in this was lovely and well-suited. Made it really believable to me. 

    They handed us scratch-offs after and I won $12!!!!!! I’m a rich bitch, run me my CHECK and I’ll buy an island too!

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  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    ★★★★★

    “Your husband turned to drink because of HUNGER!”

    I loved this movie. It was both graceful and sharp, and made me feel the character’s gutting experiences through such subtle choices (the mom pausing Bupe’s video felt like a gut punch).

    The world she built is familiar: the way The Aunties are protectors of status quo first, and protectors of their daughters second. I cried when they came into the kitchen to acknowledge this and cried at the hollowness of their acknowledgement. Who are we obligated to protect?

  • Eephus

    Eephus

    ★★★

    Love a small and quiet movie. Laughed a lot! Nate Fisher, one of the writers, did a Q&A after and called it a “love letter to the unheralded work that makes a social organism function”.