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The Piano Teacher 2001
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
watched because I was in a 'Babygirl' (H. Reijn, 2024) rabbit hole and both Halina Reijn and lead Nicole Kidman mentioned it as one of their favorites/inspirations for the film (and, of course, also because I'd heard about it and it's a classic and yadiyadiya.)
my French is pretty okay, but gosh do I wish I was fluent so I could get this one to its full extent. same thing for my knowledge of classical music history, I feel like…
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Babygirl 2024
hot and steamy, but way, way more than empty-sexual. some of the online discourse positions this film as some kind of 'Fifty Shades of Grey', but that's just an insult to how layered this script is and how deeply meaningful the dialogues are. love how we get hints of the origins of main characters Romy and Samuel's psychosexuality, not explanations. no excusing, but certainly no judging underlaying voice. freeing to be honest!
I remember watching Halina Reijn's first feature 'Instinct'…
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Dogville 2003
In 'The Tree of Life' (T. Malick, 2011) it's the voice-overs about grace that have forever changed my moral compass, here it is Grace.
I wanted to keep track of my favorite quotes, but after this one I was too immersed in and shocked by the film to still do so: "I think we've talked long enough about the way we remember seeing things. Don't you? Why don't we talk about something we can see right now?"
Will rewatch, and just…
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