Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  Elle 2016

  

  vee ★★★★★

  “But this is different! You’re the victim now!”
  “I was the victim then!”

  What adheres me to this film is how prominently it establishes that Michele is a levelheaded individual.…

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  Our Mother's House 1967

  

  sophia ★★★★

  This film lives and dies on the children's paranoia sequestered into the home, thought of as a safe haven (albeit the details there are much more than meets the eye),…

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  The Lost Daughter 2021

  

  vee ★★★★½

  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.…

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  The Piano Teacher 2001

  

  vee ★★★★½ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984

  

  vee ★★★½

  I’m glad my parents were kind of strict about not letting me watch horror movies as a child because I used to wake up once a week convinced that they…

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  A Real Young Girl 1976

  

  vee ★★★

  Breillat's become known for abstracting sexuality by pushing to it's depictions to extremes, and her directorial feature probably achieves it in the most sensational sense. Unlike her later work, Une…

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  Malina 1991

  

  vee ★★★★½

  "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…

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  Me and My Sister 2004

  

  vee ★★★★

  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…