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The Holdovers 2023
βCause what if when she looks at me, she looks at him?β
For the first time in years, I went to the cinema by myself.
The reason for this - the reason why half the lonesome travellers in cinemas are there - is because a few days ago the boy I love and I ended things. To take my mind off of it (and because I had heard that this film was a bittersweet comedy - exactly what I wasβ¦
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Annie Hall 1977
My first year away from home, I dressed almost exclusively in waistcoats and blazers. I felt that there was something so grown-up about it: it escaped me, a little, that trying to hide holes in my tights with safety pins and β on more than one occasion β trying to get away with wearing last nightβs makeup in a lecture might have ruined the effect.
Anyway, a boy at my university, on the way back from a seminar, complimented thisβ¦
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1917 2019
When I was five years old, having tea and lemonade on the hill near my house, a glider plane came ten feet from hitting me - it had fallen off course, and was trying to land. The wind funneling under its body was so great, and the sound so enormous that the scream my mother made still haunts me, twelve years later. This film is that feeling, personified. Children caught in the glare of something insurmountable, unrecognizable. Something that chillsβ¦
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Her 2013
βIβve never loved anybody like I loved you.β
βMe too. Now we know how.βHeartbreak is formative: it changes you heart side out, and leaves your muscles a little stronger, your skin a little thicker, your bones easier to repair. Before this film, Iβd never seen anything constructive in having your insides pulled apart by the seams by another person, but this film taught me how. Being in love and then being forced out of it is an experience thatβ¦