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  Beau Travail 1999

  ★★★★½ Watched by Thandie (badtakegoodtake) 15 May 2022

  Criterion Challenge 2022
  18/52
  19. Directed by Claire Denis

  Calm skies of blue contrasted with heartless patches of endless desert browns. The colonial French legion and the bemused Djiboutians. Delicacy and toughness. Repression and eventual catharsis. Beau Travail is a film of many faces which points back to the restraints of toxic masculinity. Female directors always seem to give such nuanced depictions of the topic (e.g. Mikey and Nicky, American Psycho) and Claire Denis is no different. This is my…

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  Babe: Pig in the City 1998

  ★★★½ Watched by Thandie (badtakegoodtake) 14 May 2022

  Cine Club 1-Year Anniversary Scavenger Hunt (for 2022)
  13/20
  Watch a film with a non-human main character.

  Cult of Personality 2022
  15/52
  Hugo Weaving

  The Babe duology was the original Paddington. Cute and cuddly animal changes the lives of those around him through kindness? Classic Paddington.

  I can't tell if this is better than the first Babe, partly because I haven't seen the first in quite a while, but mostly due to the fact that both are so different tonally.…

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  The Handmaiden 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched by Thandie (badtakegoodtake) 14 May 2022

  Cine Club 1-Year Anniversary Scavenger Hunt (for 2022)
  12/20
  Ask someone you really care about for a film recommendation then watch it (my friend Quenso)

  Pardon me, but THIS IS EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WANTED IN A FILM GAHH

  Striking on a visual, thematic, technical, and emotional level. This is a movie that worships layers and employs them for its twisty, novelistic narrative as well as for the numerous symbols and metaphors displayed both tangibly and intangibly. With each new…

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  Unforgiven 1992

  ★★★★★ Watched by Thandie (badtakegoodtake) 10 Dec 2020

  MASTERPIECE:
  Perhaps the best thing about Unforgiven is its famous myth-shattering presence. There's no white and black cowboy hat to tell you who's the good guy and the bad guy and oftentimes, you find yourself questioning if you're even rooting for the right side. Asking yourself whether the good is really good and the bad is really that bad.

  I love movies that make you think and throw you out of your comfort zone like that so of course, I…