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Asteroid City 2023
“Layered as it is, Asteroid City feels a little more old-school for Anderson: visually arresting but with a grounded, charming, and considered script that confronts themes of parenthood and grief, as well as the transporting power of both stargazing and daydreaming. It is an easy film to love, and his best since The Grand Budapest Hotel.“
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Strange Way of Life 2023
Interviewed Almodovar for this, and he was adamant the film doesn’t bear any resemblance to his ideas for Brokeback, but that the ending did offer a little course correction for the fate of Jack and Ennis, and I like that.
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Aftersun 2022
When your parents are apart, by way of separation, death or any circumstance, I wonder if the way you split your love moves with it. I'm thinking if, before my mother's death, my love for my parents was carved down the middle, 50/50, or if it would change depending on who I was around at the time.
In Charlotte Wells' Aftersun, Sophie's love for her father weighs so heavily towards him, so doting and special, it's almost as if her…