Letterboxd — Your life in film

“Alright, alright, alright.” 

I mean, what can I say that hasn’t already been said at this point? This film is perfect. 

“We’re not in junior high anymore… we’re freshmen. We’re in the big time now… where the girls will be puttin’ out all the time.” 

As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a coming-of-age/highschool comedy wave recently. It was only a matter of time before I decided to throw on this iconic work of art, which has…

felt so prepared to fall in love with this film but i couldn't help feeling like everything was a little underdeveloped. in the film we spend time with essentially three characters for 106 minutes, and somehow they all feel sort of surface-level in exploration. it just feels like a lot of this film is people discussing what other people are like without really seeing that exemplified in the film itself. greta lee is excellent, but i just feel like she…

61/100

Third viewing, and I finally kinda sorta like it, though the aspects that made me kinda sorta hate it two decades ago still irritate me. First and foremost among those is Duras' use of "Hiroshima" in the dialogue, which obviously has an incantatory function but nonetheless reminds me of a pushy salesman who throws your first name into every single sentence. And the allegorical nature of the central romance has always felt overly blunt, in part because it's emphasized…

Hushed and hypnotic, it makes you so conscious of its artistry that you may feel as if you're in church and need to giggle. This first full-length film by Alain Resnais has a script by Marguerite Duras that features musical, incantatory dialogue, and a crucial line, "They make movies to sell soap, why not a movie to sell peace?" The movie, which opens with the intertwined nude bodies of a French movie actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji…