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  Aftersun 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Jan 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "i think it’s nice that we share the same sky."

  to be both together and apart, so close, caring and intimate and yet having this distance ever present. it wavers in between the balcony doors, as a father dances and his daughter breathes deeply into the pillow, the rhythm pulling both closer while being pulled apart. it disappears under the loving touch of a hand spreading sunscreen, the burning sun sprinkling on smiling faces bathing in the water and creeps…

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  The English Patient 1996

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Nov 2022

  "every night i cut out my heart. but in the morning it was full again."

  i first watched the english patient approximately 16 years ago while going through a – totally heterosexual of course – kristin scott thomas phase (or did this start it? i don't remember) and immediately declared for it to be my favourite movie. revisiting it has been like diving into a long lost dream where i remember every lever to pull and turn to take as…

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  Donnie Darko 2001

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Sep 2023

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  Shutter Island 2010

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Sep 2023

  "which would be worse: to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"

  soooo good! even though i knew what was gonna happen, it still worked incredibly well!

Popular reviews

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  Wild Chicks in Love 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 01 Apr 2020 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "es gibt doch so viel verschiedene jungs."
  "aber sie sind alle jungs."

  wilma is an actual lesbian icon that they gave us in 2007 can you beliiiiieve, add the actual relationship goals of fred & sprotte, the pure soul of trude, the absolute feminst icon frieda and the idiot but my idiot melli and you got MY BEST COMING OF AGE MOVIE!

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  Sublime 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Feb 2022 1

  „are you pissed at me?“ 
  „i am pissed you are hurting so much.“ 

  so tender and beautiful and most importantly, kind. the ending was such a great moment of closure i really loved it and the normalcy with which the entire movie was handled. mayhaps this isn‘t very exciting but it sure was gentle.