I WAS SO DEVASTATED BY THIS THAT I TEARED UP THREE SEPARATE TIMES TRYING TO TALK ABOUT IT AFTERWARDS. It's everything I loved about the show Shameless before it got bad — resilient female characters, cluttered spaces, blasé pragmatism in the face of outrageous developments, WARM/FUNNY/BUOYANT DEPENDENCE BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS — with none of the gross poverty porn.
The beauty of this movie is in how unsentimental and graceful it is. I thought the premise of finding an abused kid…
DO YOU EVER WATCH A MOVIE SO BEAUTIFUL & SENSUAL THAT YOU LEAVE THE CINEMA RED-FACED & DESPONDENT BECAUSE U CAN'T WATCH IT AGAIN IMMEDIATELY??? this movie made me want to impulsively buy a plane ticket to Northern Italy, sink into a bathtub with a glass of pinot noir and weep gentle tears until Armie Hammer came along - complete in billowy blue shirt and booty shorts - to wipe them away, and promise that my pain would subside in 100yrs when…
"I'm not a very good reader, you see, I prefer being out of doors. Oh, I mean, I CAN READ OF COURSE!!!! And uhhh I'm not suggesting you can't read out of doors, of course, ummmm" - me, if I were ever confronted with Rosamund Pike's radiant presence
