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A través de tu mirada (2024)
Loved this ending to the trilogy
I thought this movie was a clever conclusion to the trilogy, and the director, crew, and actors gave it more respect and care than most other teen/college romance movies are given. Movies like this don't normally have such clever foley mixing and gorgeous camerawork, I have to say.
Ares is so well played here by Julio Peña, who moves effortlessly between being a troublemaker and a grown-up; between scared and confident. For example, a cute little eyebrow wag at the end when he's looking at Instagram with Raquel - he knows exactly what Ares would do. (If you're stuck in a hospital bed but you have to flirt, use your damn eyebrows, I guess!) Clara Galle also brings so many layers and subtlety to Raquel, like her face-drop when she realizes she was daydreaming about Ares while with Gregory. Loved the minor character reappearances, like Andrea from Raquel's carnival job and Sami from the Never Have I Ever game.
Like the other ATDMV movies, the cinematography was so skillful. (E.g., The clever shot during Raquel's holiday party where one couple kisses, and then you see the reflection of the other couple kissing in the wall mirror.) Fantastic soundtrack as always - I've found so much cool music through this trilogy. Particularly loved the Foals song and the song Ares and Raquel sing during their cute ice skating scene. (By the way, such a charming callback to Raquel's choreographed dance in ATDMV with Yoshi and Dani - now she does this nerdy, sweet thing with Ares, and it's set to another older, kinda cheesy song their parents would know.)
And in that ice skating scene alone, they pack in whimsy, character growth, a cool song choice, great camerawork, and effervescent choreography - I think it's a good example of how much the director and screenwriter managed to do in one movie. They keep so many storylines and characters moving forward and make every moment count. I loved this series and thought these characters were so
fun. This was a satisfying, clever ending to a love story I find really compelling. These are my comfort movies - I just feel like the director and the whole team respected the audience more than ever happens when making movies about teenagers.
True Things (2021)
I'm entirely impressed
This movie really accomplishes a lot. On its face it's very understated - there's limited dialogue, it takes place over a short amount of time, there are very few characters, and nothing overtly life- altering happens to anyone. No big speeches, no blow-up fights, no big set pieces, no significant investments of time or money that will haunt the characters. So it's pretty impressive how many complex human experiences it touches on while you hardly even notice anything has happened. It captures why someone might stick around to see where a relationship is going, even if there are some red flags. It captures the fact that sometimes this isn't a bad thing to do. And sometimes it is. It captures how we have to extend trust to new people in our lives, and ways in which extending your trust can be sometimes rewarding and sometimes disappointing. It captures why it might seem like a near-stranger understands us better than our friends and family do. It captures the dynamic of a best friend telling us something's not good for us or not something we can handle. And the fact that sometimes the friend was wrong, but sometimes they did know what they were talking about. It grapples with extending a second chance to someone who's let you down. And it deftly shows the dance we do when a relationship starts off as sexual and then we try to see if it could be anything else.
It demonstrates a very sweet lesson: that even if a relationship doesn't work out the way you hoped it might, that doesn't make it a waste of time. Someone can disappoint you but nonetheless have a big impact on your life. As someone who's wondered if I've stayed in some relationships too long, this was a welcome reminder that just because those relationships were flawed, that doesn't make me silly for having wanted to give them a try.
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Hits all the marks
Loved this movie. It was funny, fun to watch, and had outstanding casting. Alden E. pleasantly surprised me as a great, charming Solo. Donald Glover as Lando was brilliant casting. Can't wait to see it again.