MAJOR

currently riding the wave of a 3 day low energy depression spiral and seeing irène jacob's side profile again is hitting like an epipen to the thigh

wouldn't we all fake our own death for julie delpy?

everybody was like oh handsome boy let's hate on him

my first altman! these cameos went hard as hell

well now i have no choice but to consume veronica lake’s entire early filmography 🤨

makes a dinner party on succession look like a game of musical chairs… i gasped like 20 times

watched on the criterion channel because it’s essential classic cinema, i know that’s right

captures a super specific mundanity and gnawing daily despair that i can’t say i’ve seen portrayed like this in film before while also easily managing to be sharp as hell… life really is like that (working, and female friendships. ouch ouch ouch)

this hit too close to home in a way but i think that’s where most of my investment in it came from? otherwise it felt unbalanced to me from scene to scene, i either wept or felt nothing at all. but i think that’s just my opinion on this kind of a film rather than a testament of its quality. not sure cassavetes is for me lmao but only time will tell. (more thoughts can be found here in this week’s random movie monday video)

(watched and reviewed this as part of random movie monday, which is a new weekly video series thing i am trying out! whee!)