Trying to figure it out one movie at a time before the credits roll.
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Cha Cha Real Smooth 2022
Loved this! Cooper Raif makes these wonderfully human movies in all its messy glory. I think we need to be more compassionate and more empathetic collectively. To understand that there’s a lot more to people than what we immediately see. I like how this film reminds of us that.
Stray observations
- More softboy representation is good so that dudes know it’s okay to fucking talk about shit and it’s okay to be awkward sometimes.
- Este Haim involvement continues the Haim sisters gradual progress towards global domination and I’m okay with that -
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Midsommar 2019
An (admittedly lazy) comparison given its setting is that this is a poor man's Bergman crossed with some of the perversions of Von Trier and some of the deadpan humor of Kaurismaki. But in combining them together what you get is fractions of each without fully realizing any of its potentials.
The first hour - 75 minutes of this is super engaging. Aster, as he did with Hereditary, builds this atmosphere that is rife with this underlying tension/anticipation for what's…
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Love Actually 2003
But for now, let me say - Without hope or agenda - Just because it's Christmas - And at Christmas you tell the truth - Love Actually is terrible.
