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I started a Rohmer binge earlier this summer when I was feeling cramped up, horny, and very far from Cannes. Little did I know all I needed was to hit play on a few of these flicks on Criterion, and all of my needs could be fulfilled. Rohmer’s stories follow the most lovestruck, well-vacationed characters as they wash down kisses with martinis and fill their afternoons with silly games of phonetag and delectable meals. I love love <3
Nov 17, 2020
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one of the greatest directors of all time. no one captured the beauties and complexities of life and love, created intimacy with words and conversations and complex and authentic characters quite like he did. and no one captured the look and feeling of summer like he did.
go watch some of his films, you won’t regret it :)
Apr 23, 2024
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Honestly, anything by Eric Rohmer (apart from My Night at Maude's and La Collectionneuse, they really didn't hit for me, although they're often cited as his best, but whatever, those people are wrong w/e), but I think this one is a great place to start. It's such a weird little story. A 20-year-old guy is dating a 25-year-old woman who, before him, was having an affair with a pilot. One day he sees the pilot leave her apartment building, and becomes obsessed with the idea that she's cheating on him. High jinks ensue and what starts as a fraught emotional drama gives way to a Hitchockian thriller, when he teams up with the cute, sparky blonde high schooler he meets in a park to investigate.
Ultimately, it's a film that's all about the labryinths we create because of jealousy, and the choices we make, either to sit on the outside of our life looking in or to get inside and star in the story - and actually believing that we have that choice in the first place. Anyway, I love it! Vive la France! 🇫🇷
Feb 9, 2024
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Éric Rohmer is probably one of my favourite directors of all time. I have seen all six of his Moral Tales, all four of his Four Seasons, and quite a few of his Comedies and Proverbs (of which The Green Ray is the fifth). This was the movie I started university with as I was reminded of this film after visiting Biarritz and St-Jean-de-Luz. Personally, I felt a rewarch of Delphine’s beautiful and atmospheric solo explorations throughout France was perfect as I had just moved away from home for the first time!
Sep 18, 2024
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I don’t have one but if you have one I can’t underestimate how important it is that you use it all the time. Ok I have a bath but it’s so small and sad. I have to fold into a pretzel -- a tiny one in the Chex Mix pretzel, not a big Beer Garden pretzel -- to fit and it always feels like it has residue of my aforementioned hair dye. But if you have you use it for me. Spread out. Sprawl. Light candles. What a treat it would be to have a bathtub during a year like this. I’d buy a floating tray, candles, bubbles that would make me breakout. I have to leave this fantasy, it’s making me cry.
Nov 17, 2020
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I have faith that the working class can unite, and feel hopeful at the galvanization of my friends who have found a set of politics that excites them.
Nov 17, 2020
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I bleached my hair in September, and it’s the most myself I’ve felt in years. It’s probably ironic to make such a paramount and exterior change while in quarantine when few people see me on a day to day basis, but I’m having a lot of fun exploring my range of identities. Pink, purple, blue, and green have all been fun ones so far.
Nov 17, 2020