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Spanglish 2004
really didn’t expect that Brooks, or any other white American director, for that matter, could accomplish something this nuanced, this human about immigrant identity (and I’m being slightly generous here, I know; Paz Vega is no Mexican, lol), love, and family. so much of this is built over apologies, words unsaid, things misunderstood, that those moments of understanding, genuine love and tenderness register as all the more transitory, destined to expire almost as soon as we’ve witnessed them. but it’s…
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle 1987
friendship as a state of flux, constant interrogation and reinvention. as rare and easy to miss as the blue hour.
