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Casablanca 1942
The movie of all movies. Boy did a movie ever live up to its hype as Casablanca. I have an affinity for slick Rick brooding characters with difficult pasts, cynical shells but mush interiors who fall into hopeless romantic traps and Humphrey Bogart might have paved the way for all of them. The yearning he portrays, the absolute pain and frustration in his face. "I came to Casablanca for the waters." "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert." "I…
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Before Sunrise 1995
Some may find this movie boring because of its dragging length and its hours of dialogue and lack of characters.
To me the slow pace was beautiful and needed, to understand these two deeply and be consumed by them as they are with each other only to then feel SUCH emptiness when they part.
Listening booth scene deserves all the love it gets. Great writing but a standout topic was when she thinks she’s an old woman looking back at…
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A Woman Under the Influence 1974
I am out of words to express how hollowed out I feel after my first Cassavette experience!!
My poor desperate lonely Mabel and my poor desperate lonely angry Nick all tumbling around in a carefully constructed living breathing house trying to not crumble under the extreme up close analysis of this toxic whirlwind of a matrimony.
The Longetthis and their speghetti fights and their intense love and anger for each other manifests outwardly in both of them through their madness…
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