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Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019
The film is a masterful gallery you walk through, each painting in conversation with the next. On this watch it reminded me of going to the National Gallery as a child and staring up at the huge canvases, imagining the conversations between the subjects, absorbing the mood (so often it seemed secretive to me, as all things lit by candlelight do). Each rewatch brings greater awareness of the little flame inside me the first viewing lit. I love this film very much. I care about the women so much. I want the world for them.
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A Little Princess 1995
I was worried how this would age but I still love it as dearly as I did when I was a child. It is such a beautiful portrayal of parental love and also of self protection, of finding the will to carry on, of the stories we believe in to keep going. I have thought about the circle she draws in the attic most days of my life.
There are elements of the story that feel a bit dated, particularly…
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