“Do all lovers feel they’re inventing something?”

when I watched this movie only one word came to mind: breath. as a queer women, I felt like I could take a deep breath and sigh, knowing that all of my sapphic thoughts and musings are almost perfectly encapsulated in the way marianne desires héloïse. it was as if céline sciamma took me by the shoulders and said “you have the right to yearn” and that honestly makes me feel safe