Roman Pulanski with Mia Farrow and John Cassavettes on pregnancy & childbirth stealing a woman's personhood... how much more horrifying can it get
Oct 28, 2024
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Oct 29, 2024
“Here piggy, piggy!” From a bondage-clad Emmanuelle Seigner whipping her asshole of a husband Peter Coyote, while he writhes around on the floor in a porcine mask, to an uptight Kristin Scott Thomas lezzing off on the dancefloor on a depressing New Year's Eve cruise, as a bereft Hugh Grant looks on, Roman Polanski’s erotic thriller is basically just a study of how power works in relationships, but with potentially more drastic consequences like maiming and murder.
Mar 4, 2025
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I had never heard of this film until the other day, despite it coming out in 2004, starring Nicole Kidman, who is sporting the chicest of pixie cuts, and having an aesthetic/tone/vibe that lights up all my pleasure centres (shot in NYC, grey/pink colour palette, opens on a long tracking shot set to intense classical music).
I think the reason I hadn't heard about the film was because it was so marred in controversy at the time of release because of its subject matter. Without giving too much away, Nicole's character is a widow who meets a 10-year-old boy who tells her he is her dead husband. People were up in arms about the idea of adult Nicole potentially being in love with a child. That said, all the criticism felt like it was coming from people who had heard about the plot rather than actually having seen the film, which just so happens to be a soulful, sensitive and intelligent meditation on grief and love.
Watch it, I beg of you!
Oct 31, 2024
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as we all (pi fyi users) know, being into shit is cool.
i’ve been thinking about how in the early days of facebook rather than liking pages you would “become a fan” of them and i just love that verbage. so sweet and precious
Feb 23, 2024
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i said that so smoothly and confidently and wasn’t weird at all
Mar 16, 2025
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it’s nice to have a forced walk in the morning before work and it’s not really of shame if you’re in love
Apr 11, 2025