Michelle

Michelle

"Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl"

Favorite films

  • Poetry
  • Moonlight
  • Funeral Parade of Roses
  • La Chimera

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  • Death of a Unicorn

    ★★★

  • Nightbitch

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • The Virgin Suicides

    ★★★★

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  • Death of a Unicorn

    Death of a Unicorn

    ★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • Nightbitch

    Nightbitch

    ★★★½

    I love Amy Adams. I hated the ending. Really profound portrayal of motherhood. We need more movies like this.

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  • The Virgin Suicides

    The Virgin Suicides

    ★★★★

    The most iconic line in cinematic history, for me, comes from the opening of this film: “Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year old girl.” 

    When I first watched this in my younger years, it was everything. As someone who grew up in a sheltered religious household with all sisters, I saw myself in these sisters. Watching this years later, some of the lines resonate with a stinging accuracy: “ We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way…

  • 8½

    ★★½

    I know I’m supposed to like this because it’s the classic Fellini film you’re supposed to like  but the macho bullshit is too distracting. A grown man navel gazing about his infidelities  and creative blocks through various dream sequences that lead to nowhere... I can’t tell if this is meant to be a piece about a man who wants to become a better person, but it’s more about a man who’s like “yeah I’ve fucked a lot of women.. but…

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