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The Bakery Girl of Monceau 1963
This first installment in Rohmer’s Moral Tales is short and subtle in its subject matter. It seems to be about the moral implications around the manipulation of the romantic impulse, how this causes us to use more vulnerable partners and how we bypass authenticity to attract those we desire. (I feel the character’s perpetual sweet tooth and his littering of the beautiful city play with these themes).
It seems that the young man's sweet tooth (his desire) causes him to…
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The Darjeeling Limited 2007
To live life is to be on a spiritual journey and on your journey you will have to leave old baggage behind in order to move along.
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Sanctuary 2022
How often do we treat our relationships like a script or a game, giving ourselves the illusion of being in control when really we should lose it and give in?
How easy it is, when we don't know ourselves to forget and want to forget those who know us best? The fear born of this, mixes and confuses the authentic and inauthentic, reducing intimacy to transaction and valuable time spent to an expensive watch.
True love (and art) must and…
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Poor Things 2023
We are all made up of various fragments and broken pieces of our past; sewn, hemmed together, formed and deformed.
We are the results of both successful and failed experiments. With explorative and curious hearts, we seek in our traversing of the world and in the story of our intricate and messy lives the truth of our senses, the truth of love, the truth of worldly pursuits, the truth of the consequences of actions and the truth of who we…
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