Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Ko tēnei te wā tuatahi ka mātakitakitia tētahi kiriata reo Māori e au. He mīharo rawa atu, ko tōku tumanako kia maha ake ngā kiriata reo Māori 🙏
He ahua rerekē ngā motivations me ngā mahi a ngā kiripuaki ki ōku nei whakaaro. Heoi ano. He tino pai ngā kakahu.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Probably heaps of people are watching this again after watching Saltburn!!
Got my whole flat + Eamonn and Bena to watch this with me. I think my 4th or 5th time? It’s one of my favourites.
This time I noticed how intensely 90s parts of it are.
When I was watching Saltburn I thought it was a full-on homage (you can map the characters right on to each other, pivotal erotic bath scene, similar story). But then I read
Emerald…
You can’t just have a line about how ‘being gay doesn’t mean living a lonely life any more’ to excuse making a movie about how depressing and lonely being gay is.
Featured a lot of the same themes as Aftersun (looking back on childhood, dead parents, depression, loneliness, suicide, how hot Paul Mescal is). But where Aftersun had a delicate touch this was less subtle and had a thread of nastiness that left a bitter taste.
My favourite parts of it were the relationship between the two fellas, reminded me of Weekend (2011).