Favorite films

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  All We Imagine as Light 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025 1

  a big city can swallow you whole with its sound and light and love and hope.. big cities are where scumbags want to profit off every inch of anything that gives sustenance to life and big cities are also where lovers are hiding in plain sight in every well lit shop, grabbing your hand for life at a busy crossing- big cities are the future eating your whole life until going backwards feels like the process of being vomit.

  i…

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  Love Lies 2024

  ★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  a very strange movie with some very random, touching, dreamy visuals and some super profound reflections on love and what it does to women - this film was almost there in many ways but lacked some coherence/was repetitive in its ideas but wow, what fun, eccentric characters brought to life and what fun, lively cities given so much life - memory, imagination, comedy, the whole package! 

  vera and i had a blast and the whole theatre smelt like kara age chicken because of us.

Popular reviews

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  Peak Season 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Aug 2024 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Swallow 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 15 Feb 2025 2

  I was hating on it when I was less than halfway through and being all like girl stop eating that really it’s not that deep. but then, it really is that deep. what a beautiful film, pretty to look at, so much to think with and the feeling of a weird warmth and emptiness at the same time. 

  the final scene and the closing credits are just brilliant- because, as I’ve said many times before, i love the social potential of…

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