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omg this movie. i love how slow and intentional it feels. the story is given room to breathe. scenes often feel like peeking into a moment that continues after the scene ends. we follow alan’s journey via a series of significant encounters, while not neglecting to appreciate and luxuriate in the long lonely days he spends on the road. the travel montages are beautiful golden and deeply midwestern. the lynchian horror element is very present but executed subtly. i felt the story was told with skill. my favorite scenes:
the very last scene, alan and lyle reunite. the suspense built to this moment is incredible. the air is thick with emotion. few words are spoken, yet so much is exchanged between them.
the hospitable couple chat in the kitchen. love is exchanged through gesture— she leans, chin first, limited in reach by her hands, which stay in the mixing bowl. he closes the distance with a kiss. she answers a question he didn’t quite have to ask. she treats the answer like it’s obvious— of course, extend generosity.
the conversation with the pregnant woman around the campfire. you need your family. you need strangers.
thank u iyes for projecting thank u ether for hosting
the very last scene, alan and lyle reunite. the suspense built to this moment is incredible. the air is thick with emotion. few words are spoken, yet so much is exchanged between them.
the hospitable couple chat in the kitchen. love is exchanged through gesture— she leans, chin first, limited in reach by her hands, which stay in the mixing bowl. he closes the distance with a kiss. she answers a question he didn’t quite have to ask. she treats the answer like it’s obvious— of course, extend generosity.
the conversation with the pregnant woman around the campfire. you need your family. you need strangers.
thank u iyes for projecting thank u ether for hosting
Apr 10, 2025
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such a visually stunning movie and the movie itself including the mostly improvised dialogue is beautiful too!
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this movie is about an actress who had an affair with her director and is running away from the scandal. the whole movie is her trying to seek some type of comfort in different people’s houses after the fall out. the whole movie is very slow paced but i don’t think you would be able to feel how raw her sadness is if it moved any faster. you really have to sit with her and be uncomfortable and lost with her.
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🎞I’m always keeping my thoughts on the few films I choose to write about solely within the pages of my notes up, so I figured what the heck! Maybe someone out there might like the two cents I want to spend on talking about a film that moved me :] Spoilers, ofc!!!
(2/2/25) Absolutely beautiful film. Watched it with katlafo, and we were both sobbing messes by the end. Throughout the beginning, I spent so much time trying to analyze the film, thinking I HAD to figure out the underlying message of a film I’d heard so much about before I’d even truly experienced it for myself. Man.
The scene where Greg shows Rachel her film was so beautiful. Again, I tried to pin point what it all meant in the moment—the constant cuts to Greg and Rachel’s pained expressions, the long shots of seemingly symbolic stop-motion—but I realized that that was exactly what was keeping me from what I longed for. So I sat there, and felt. And cried, and cried. Later, the scene where Greg chooses to go to Rachel’s room, allowing himself to simply exist in the silence, taking in the remnants of her life, it was all so beautiful; the tears just wouldn’t stop, haha.
While I didn’t leave this film with some life changing message I was subconsciously searching for, I feel this movie reminds me to love myself the way I do others; and to do things because they matter to ME, because I care about them.
While I want to say I’ll never trust anything that tells me someone or something won’t die at the end, I know that’s not true.
(2/2/25) Absolutely beautiful film. Watched it with katlafo, and we were both sobbing messes by the end. Throughout the beginning, I spent so much time trying to analyze the film, thinking I HAD to figure out the underlying message of a film I’d heard so much about before I’d even truly experienced it for myself. Man.
The scene where Greg shows Rachel her film was so beautiful. Again, I tried to pin point what it all meant in the moment—the constant cuts to Greg and Rachel’s pained expressions, the long shots of seemingly symbolic stop-motion—but I realized that that was exactly what was keeping me from what I longed for. So I sat there, and felt. And cried, and cried. Later, the scene where Greg chooses to go to Rachel’s room, allowing himself to simply exist in the silence, taking in the remnants of her life, it was all so beautiful; the tears just wouldn’t stop, haha.
While I didn’t leave this film with some life changing message I was subconsciously searching for, I feel this movie reminds me to love myself the way I do others; and to do things because they matter to ME, because I care about them.
While I want to say I’ll never trust anything that tells me someone or something won’t die at the end, I know that’s not true.
Feb 3, 2025
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authentic martian cocktail that came to me in a dream @CLEMENTINED my co-mixologist
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when they tell you they’re in love and their roots are intertwined under the ground, you can throw a wedding for trees. they have the most beautiful vows
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a deep clean… move all the furniture, beat the rugs, sweep, mop, rearrange. it was needed.