Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Mar 2025

  i wish french people were real

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  Love Machine 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  funny but in a way that made my heart sink into my stomach 💔

Popular reviews

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  The Comfort of Strangers 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Nov 2024

  HOLY OEDIPUS! HOLY HEDONISM!

  i wasn’t sure what to make of this one after watching it, but it’s really grown on me in retrospect. i’m definitely interested in reading the original book (and not surprised it came from mcewan, that little freak).

  and i kinda loved christopher walken’s monologue in a sick and twisted way.

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  Phantom Thread 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  textured and utterly beautiful. i read it as a metaphor, albeit a slightly perverse one, for the creative process as a state of constant renewal—the give and take, death and rebirth. we’ve all heard it: great art requires at least some form of suffering (induced or not), so an artist must be a lunatic in equal measure, no? is creativity nothing more than thinly veiled masochism? 

  the way PTA contextualizes the artist-muse relationship…? genius! who is ultimately responsible for creation, subject…

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