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The Dreamers 2003
I hated this film when I first watched it at 15 (maybe 16?) but that's partly because I wasn't old enough to appreciate the comedy in a scene where an American and a Frenchman argue about the Vietnam War while taking a bubble bath together. Plus I also read Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau since then, which is the book that inspired the book The Dreamers is based on (The Holy Innocents by Gilbert Adair).
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All of Us Strangers 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Loved the first two thirds, was sporadically crying throughout as certain things deeply resonated, but when his ghost parents died in front of him at the diner my capacity to have my emotions mined for pain hit the limit. The foot was on the gas pedal too early, for too long and without any meaningful acceleration to a finish line for me. The rest of the plot soured from there, although upon understanding that Harry died as soon as he…
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Phenomena 1985
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Not just a straightforward slasher film - the horror in Argento's 'Phenomena' draws on the fears of moving to a foreign country, being a social outcast, gaslighting, and the withholding of feminine solidarity during trauma.
The heroine of the film is a young Jennifer Connelly, who is outspoken and doesn't hold back when standing up for herself or speaking about her peculiar telepathic affinity with insects. This marks her out from most other characters in the film, and other female…
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