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Reviews
Conversations with Friends (2022)
Precocious and quite
Very beautiful. Encapsulates the precociousness and self-flagellation characteristic of youth. Was quite and understated yet brimming with hope and possibility.
Frances Ha (2012)
Bright
Very bright and promising. Embodiment of love and youth and friendship. Emblematic of life under late stage capitalism, of trying to make a way for oneself in a world that feels all too lonely.
The Lost Daughter (2021)
Uneasy
Uneasy watch. Immersive yet detached all the same. Colman is brilliant in this. Curious to know how the book fares with this. Commentary on motherhood and a character study of a mother.
The Souvenir (2019)
Arthouse film
Arthouse film. Slow and fragmented. I watched it over three days. Not sure what I feel as of yet, it was meandering with little plot but earnest actors.
Verdens verste menneske (2021)
Profound
So evocative, so beautiful and brilliant. Never before have I seen such a profound and sensitive inquiry into youth, into love, into all the grievances of life. There is so much in this work of art.
Sense8 (2015)
Brilliant masterpiece
Brilliant, evocative and brimming with the premises of hope and human connection that is fundamental to our survival. The love that binds us all. Oh and Max Riemelt.
Her (2013)
Brilliant
An evocative piece of art, a great retelling of the grief of love, and of being. So brilliant and something that will stay with me till the end, watching Her felt like a portal into all of our minds, all of our worries and thoughts and fears on life and love and loneliness.
Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
Beautiful
Beautiful and biting depiction of what it means to love. The constant tension, the pull and tug that exists between Jonathan and Mira is brilliantly acted. It feels so raw and real to witness a relationship fragment, then people becoming whole again.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Brilliantly bizarre
An enjoyable work of art, brilliantly bizarre and fun. The cinematography and storytelling was spell binding, with characters that took you far and wide. A comedy of sorts, Anderson shone with this.
Only You (2018)
Exquisite
The film is daunting in its realism, a beautiful love story.
Normal People (2020)
Beautiful
So so beautiful. Love and adolescence are captured true to form.
I May Destroy You (2020)
So real
Raw and unflinching, Michaela Coel perfectly deconstructs what it means to experience sexual assault, and delves deep into the many crevices and nuances of abuse. Commentary on friendship, love, race and what it means to be alive.
Inception (2010)
A cinematic masterpiece
Insanely captivating and disturbing. What does it mean to live a full life? To live a dream life? Grief, and the power of the subconscious, our deepest fears and desires permeate our actions. What do we sacrifice in reality? The ability to choose.
Donnie Darko (2001)
Insane cinematic experience
Truly spectacular. I don't know how one is supposed to feel after consuming the sensation that is Donnie Darko, a movie adept with all the range of human emotion; the complexity of life and the turbulence of adolescent years. It felt true, a gaping void of honesty. Confliction and remaining true to what one believes in, Donnie's conviction despite his alienation remains a premise of the film. So grand that I do not know that I have the words to describe what I have watched yet.
The Pursuit of Love (2021)
Great escapism and fun
I felt that I'd been catapulted right into the upper-class-high-brow-disapprovingly-English world of Fanny and Linda, viewing their triumphs and losses as they came to understand their places in the world, either rejecting them or accepting them. It felt like a grand escapism, and a true account of what it means to be a woman, to be privileged and yearning for a purpose, for an indescribable substance. It felt like watching two people grow in real time, and bloom into voracious and wanting people. Moving and enjoyable, true to life and true to the quest of finding meaning. Liability taken with its depiction of communism as a lost, utopian cause haha.