Bloody fantastic. Someone’s little idea. Want to recommend it to everyone I know
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Some Like It Hot 1959
“[you don’t want the] coleslaw in the face, the old socks, the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste [type of guy]”
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Perfect Days 2023
Instantly to the top of my favourite films of all time. A lesson in small pleasures, and the zen of silent joys.
I loved his buying battered paperbacks and seeing their thoughts in the shadows of the trees. The bike rides across bridges through long clear skies. His small smile as he remembers details of a conversation he only watched. The playfulness of the shadowfight between two middle-aged men who find themselves walking the road of life alone. The simultaneous…
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In Bed with Victoria 2016
unfortunately unbelievable lead whose “complexity” comes from neglect of the two children who she leaves with anyone and everyone, and then sleeps with them on their way out. Truly ridiculous courtroom scenes - I thought this with Anatomy of a Fall - “god almighty I would not want to be tried by a French court”! They submit literally anything as evidence… This film is the less successful version of Anatomy of a Fall.
I wish female complexity could be shown without a female lead being overly sexed up and perpetually in a mini skirt … it’s not enough for the lauding it gets
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