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Joachim Trier's third "Oslo" film became renowned for a very good reason. Well, really many very good reasons. Perfect film for anyone going through a mid-20s crisis, Renate Reinsve's Julie is a wonderfully deep, nuanced, and relateable character who makes a lot of terrible decisions alongside a lot of wonderful ones. The film's cast is pretty stellar (standout being Anders Danielsen Lie) and its structure sucks you into all the petty or powerful dramas that happen in four years of life.
Because a lot of the production is so naturalistic, the stylised elements hit even harder. It's a beautiful film.
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Never seen a relationship depicted like this in another film. It helped me process my first heartbreak. There's a comment on Letterboxd which says "what on god's green earth."
Sep 30, 2024
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The 2021 Joachim Trier movie where this girl is running and where she didnāt say the line about the things one fears the most, no, that was actually her dying of cancer ex.
So my best friend and his new partner (my friend-in-law) are harsh on the main character for her allegedly unmoral doings (cheating, being a pain in the ass, never settling for whatās good for her), but I like the little norwegian sinner. The way she already cheated in her mind and heart, but will state otherwise out loud to jam her thoughts.
Im not going for the disturbing the comfortable quote, no, thatās a low hanging fruit. But why consume works of fiction to judge the sinful, and not find our own worst fears and weaknesses in them? As if the title didnāt have it coming.
By the way, the ending sucks ass
5/5 in first rewatch
Jan 24, 2024
Only half way through and have maybe conflicted feelings about this film, which tracks an industrialist familys various foibles and debaucheries in the early years of the third reich
But If youāre going to watch a film that takes this approach to the subjectā focusing on politics and morality, aristocratic degeneration, the particular place of family drama in historyā I think itās a pretty good one. Thereās a sort of tragic Shakespearean valence to it all
Good āeuropean art house film about fucked up rich peopleā movie
Jan 13, 2024
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I'm not obsessed with it but it's always sweet when the barista does something cool. This one yesterday made me smile because after seeing a few others I realised the guy was doing PokƩmon! Fairly certain mine is mew or Mewtwo, I saw him do a horsea, pikachu, and squirtle too...
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Feels a bit redundant to recommend one of the most popular movies of all time, but for me this one had kind of stayed in the category "I'm sure it's good, I'll get to it some day".
A friend put it on and I absolutely adored it āĀ it wasn't just a great, scary horror movie ā it covered a breadth of genres, was written really well, had great acting, and looked just wonderful.
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Find a bunch of cool Public Domain or Creative Commons images (I just click "Random File" on Wikimedia Commons) and turn them into something you think looks like an album cover. It's fun to come up with a name for the band / album and imagine what their stuff would sound like!
Maybe don't do this, actually. It's kind of a massive waste of time. I find it fun, though!
As a bonus you can then make a chart of them and send it to your friends saying they're your favourite new releases. Waste their time as well :)
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