Your movies for the week

Clueless

A classic of course. I started with an easy watch; perhaps the easiest of watches. There is a beautiful simplicity to the movie. Cher Horowitz never really has anything insane happen to her. There’s no murder, no mayhem. Just beautiful outfits and sunny Southern California.

Following Horowitz around Beverley Hills while she drives her Jeep through pedestrians and roads alike. It’s a perfect way to start the week. Do some self-care, have a glass of wine, and watch Cher Horowitz find herself and Paul Rudd at the same time.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

I was hesitant to watch this one because I thought it might be kind of a Call Me By Your Name knockoff. There seems to be kind of a revolution of thought regarding queer movies and CMBYN sort of patented the “beautiful landscape dry story-telling low impact relationship movie”. I know that’s stupid but it is definitely what I was thinking about for the first half of the movie. The long looks, the lack of music, the drab realizations, they’re all so CMBYN.

That being said, there was such a distinct feeling of community in this movie. The relationship between Heloise, Marianne, and Sophie is amazing and complicated. It is full of love and strife, feeling and sympathy.

The overlay of art is also something that Portrait of a Lady on Fire distinguishes itself on. Although CMBYN does a similar thing with sculpture and history, there is this idea of art versus artist. Marianne and Heloise explore the idea that art separates the artist from their own, actual perspective of the world.

It was a great movie to get my analytical blood flowing, and feed my desire for romantic beauty.

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Oh my god, I am obsessed. Mildred Hayes is quite seriously, my most important role model of the year. The story focuses on my two most favorite things, revenge and justice.

The movie has all the delicious action of a Tarantino movie without all the greasy overtones and feet stuff.

Mildred is furious with the world. She hates it. The way the cops are, the way her family is, the way her daughter was killed. The beauty of the film is that Mildred makes the audience hate the world too. Frances McDormand portrays the complexities of anger in such a digestible way. McDormand’s pain and actions are so functionally understandable that the audience really digs deep into the psychology of her motives.

More importantly though, I LOVE HER. SHE TAKES A STAND, GETS THINGS DONE, AND THEN PULLS THE TRIGGER ON HER LIFE.

In short, I’m obsessed, and you will be too if you haven’t watched it.