Favourites are four of my top first time watches from February 2024.
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The Plumber 1979
A masterclass in all that can be achieved with weaponised subtext - every scene here has at least three different levels, and the knotty, multi-dimensional tension is as gripping as it is unsettling.
More than anything, it all hinges on the cognitive dissonance you're socialised to have as a woman in relation to men: they're threats, they only want one thing, you have to watch your back around them, and yet you have to be polite, laugh at their jokes…
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Ferrari 2023
Took me quite a while to get into this (and longer still to get used to Adam Driver's accent/fake hairline combo), but eventually the melancholic melodrama of it all started to become quite appealing. Vengeful Penelope Cruz = the best Penelope Cruz? And *that scene* is as spectacularly horrific as advertised - blimey.
I think overall, a movie that's greater than the sum of its parts, and a really solid character study.
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Roll Red Roll 2018
If you’re looking to get angry - and I mean blood-boilingly, ear-steamingly furious - then I’ve got just the documentary for you...
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Change of Habit 1969
I mean, what can you say about a film where Dr. Elvis hugs a girl for hours to cure her of autism? And it works!
Just, wow...