MerryMay

MerryMay

Favorite films

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Soul
  • I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

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  • After Yang

    ★★★★½

  • Dìdi (弟弟)

    ★★★★★

  • North by Northwest

    ★★★★½

  • Anatomy of a Fall

    ★★★★

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  • After Yang

    After Yang

    ★★★★½

    AFTER YANG is a quiet contemplation of what it means to exist from both a human’s POV and an AI’s. Speaking of style, it reminds me of TREE OF LIFE and the play with lights and shadows, the beautiful cinematography and tactility is INCREDIBLE.

    The plot is simple (no spoilers) and pacing is slow (quickly than 蔡明亮‘a “Slow Cinema” for sure) but allows more room for more in-depth thinking and feeling. Some of my favorite scenes are playbacks of the…

  • Dìdi (弟弟)

    Dìdi (弟弟)

    ★★★★★

    I’m so grateful to see this during the summer when I’m about to make my first fictional film with an entire cast and crew; when my little DiDi also just graduated from middle school; when I am healthy, connected, and happy; when EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

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  • Intimates

    Intimates

    ★★★★½

    Many scenes move me to tears: the dance among candle lights, the holding hands in the pouring rain, the boat ticket torn into two parts, the fearless jump to reach for the lover, the hug separated by the steel gate and the explosions… 

    50 years have passed and they don’t even know whether they are each alive or not. But they never forget each other. The moment when they hold hands again, their wrinkled hands turn young and they go back to younger times once more. Time doesn’t age them, because they have eternality in their hands now.

    😭

  • North by Northwest

    North by Northwest

    ★★★★½

    WHAT A TREAT/ADVENTURE!!! It's like being plunged into a dream of living-an-unreal-identity-running-away-and-hiding all day-and-falling-in-love-with-someone-you're not-supposed-to-scenario!! The whole adventure not only fulfilled the main protagonist Roger (played by Cary Grant)'s dream of "feeling useful" and getting all the attention, but also our dreams to take a safe but thrilling action-romance-adventure!! I was very much aligned with both him and his love interest Eve Kendall who is a very independent, stunning, and sophisticated woman; and once I felt rooted for him, every…