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Me and My Sister 2004
Perhaps even more devastating on rewatch because you already know where it's going to end up emotionally. In my previous review, I compared it to Margot at the Wedding and stated that I thought that MATW was the more biting version of this film. On rewatch, I'm not sure if that's true. Sure, MATW is definitely more acrid in tone (and probably the better film overall), the contrast in Les Soeurs Fachees between Frot and Huppert is so severe that…
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Malina 1991
"I'm not Christ. I can't save you."
"But you look like him."Malina takes everything that was bubbling under the surface in The Piano Teacher and finally lets it erupt on screen: despair, denial, auto-destruction. The film isn't really about anything other than our unnamed protagonist, despite everything else going on. It's a lurid and suffocating perspective, made more arresting by Schreoter's compositions (formal enough to seem deliberate, restrained enough to seem uncanny). Huppert seems to be acting in a…
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Serial Mom 1994
Everyday I’m presented with another reason to fear upper middle class white women. I also work in retail.
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Stand by Me 1986
my favorite hobby in middle school was appropriating other people’s tragedies, so yeah i really felt this one
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The Lost Daughter 2021
The Lost Daughter grapples with something that I've been thinking about for a while. There's a terrible mother trope involving women who are outright mean; directly punishing and verbally vindictive. And then there's the other type of cruel mother, one that's not often explored in film, and that is the mother who explicitly withholds comfort. These are not necessarily "cold" mothers, women who are repressed and emotionally detached from all their relationships, but rather women who see their children suffering…