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Femme 2023
Do you need a big man to treat you like a little bitch?
The "drag queen gets revenge!" pitch is embarrassingly simplistic. Femme is really a ticking time bomb filled with constant subversions and a truly shocking ending. I've never seen a movie explore internalized homophobia in such a harsh way.
George MacKay gets the showier role (and he does an incredible job) but Nathan Stewart-Jarrett ends up being the most impressive puzzle piece of Femme - giving a performance…
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Adaptation. 2002
Hard to get behind a loser sad sack and Charlie Kaufman is the king.
Spike Jonze's mostly stays out of the way of Kaufman's erratic screenplay.
I thought the movie was going to end after Brian Cox's great monologue but the movie was one step ahead of me and had 45 minutes left.
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Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant + John Early 2022
When John dismissively says “aw!” in response to Kate saying she’s been doing theatre in New York, I laughed so long at my iPad that I had to turn it off and come back.
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Trembling 2015
Have gotten so used to queer material really favoring explicit content that the conservatism of this short felt like it's strongest quality. It is ROMANTIC. The kiss towards the end is one of the most breathtaking movie kisses I've ever seen. This is the first work I've seen from this director and I can't wait to dig deeper.