“I used the thread as my Bible,” Janicza Bravo tells me. “I told the story, as it was written.” In a separate interview, on another day, Jeremy O. Harris concurs. “It was always 100 percent a fact to me, in the way that for some people, the Bible is a fact for them, [even when] geography or anthropology tell us differently. That is how I treat the mythic figure of Zola.”
Harris, co-writer, and Bravo, co-writer and director, are of…
me in the first act: i am so much more intrigued by these two popes than i expected to be! such interesting cinematography! what a delightful use of abba!
me for the rest of the movie: the two popes are in love. the two popes are going to fuck.
the sexual tension was INSANE LMAOOOO LIKE????? the first time when one of them goes for a hug and the other goes for a handshake and they nervously laugh and say…
my favorite shot was when napoleon spits out his wine and pulls a bug out of the glass and we take such a close look at the bug you can see the grooves in joaquin phoenix’s fingertips
i’m rarely thaaaat into a war film so im not hugely moved but i still thought it was good and the length felt mostly earned!
sofia coppola every time we meet i come bearing an open heart and every time i am just so unmoved ❤️ pretty pretty pictures of a whole lotta nothing! but you know what i LOVED how big a role elvis’ goon squad played in this and i loved when jacob elordi said “im gonna be a dadduh”
overall engaging enough but would’ve been better to watch on streaming while mostly talking over it!
“let her have her podcast!”
the director called it lord of the flies meets mean girls and im obsessed with that. a HOOT!
