"Away From Her" - new film by Sarah Polley

I'm sure she's more aware of the reception of the film than I am, but I never saw Take This Waltz as a battle-of-the-sexes story and I'm surprised anyone would have taken it on that level.

I was not a fan either.

really enjoyed women talking tbh. the look didn’t bother me at all, it honestly still managed to be beautiful even though it felt like there was no real color and every impression of color was like a glow off a shadow

Yeah I loved this, incl. the way it looks (though I'm generally fond of washed out greenery). Palette seemed like a response to the opening line about being "banished from the real." And that stargazing scene, amazing.

interesting to see it after the whale, another movie that’s functionally a single-location one-act play, bc it felt like there was far more filmic invention in the sudden flashes backwards and sideways in women talking. it was also not completely miserable

the scene where they reveal what year it is 1) rules 2) manages to not feel cheap or like a twist. it’s like watching modernity drive through a landscape it’s only touched by the edges

and yet the colony is just a microcosm of our own supposedly progressed society! anyway, loved this movie, like thinking about it, think the critics who accuse it of reeling off 2010s feminist twitter talking points need to log off

oooh really? Who's written that?

I saw it again a couple weeks ago. I still think it looks drab and has a genuine pacing problem but I admired it more.

oooh really? Who's written that?

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, January 22, 2023 7:49 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

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The "Twitter in 2017" jab reveals the limits of that guy's experience with how women talk. There's something heightened about the dialogue, in keeping with the film's staginess, but it didn't feel untrue to their milieu. Women have been grappling with matters of consent and harm for millennia.