Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Never has an almost-3-hour-long movie gone by so fast. The pacing felt perfect and although this movie only shows the first act of the musical and makes this act last an hour longer than the act in the musical, no moment in this film felt drawn out or packed with filler at all. In fact, what they added here felt necessary and allowed the story to evolve in a natural way. With extra powerful moments like the beautiful ballroom scene.…
This movie was more of a fever dream than I would’ve anticipated. Many frames in this film are either a beautiful surrealist painting or a captivating liminal space with great music choices and tasteful sound design to accompany them.
Besides this dream-like side to the film, it also manages to portray, in particular, how awkward and uncomfortable love can be (especially for queer people since it's harder to know whether someone else can like you back), and, in general, the…