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🧌me like pool movie🧌me like beautiful people🧌this movie beautiful people🧌me cheer pool scene🥲🧌

I have never been so overstimulated. The music the lights the yelling. Not a lot of thoughts. I love films about show business, behind the scenes, production, tears, trips, rise, fall, jealously, stardom blah blah blah all the best movies are about sex, parties, and working hard

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It had the perfect atmosphere for a pool scene :(

Virgin Balenciaga Butler vs Chad Yeezy Chalamet

I don’t understand the hate on Australian films, I don’t even think many Australians understand Australian films. We do ~gothic~ so well. We do fairytales so well. 

This is one definitely not for people who don’t leave the house much. So many reviews question as to why Emily Browning was doing what she did. Where is your imagination? She burnt the money to check if it was fake. She hangs out with her strange shut in friend because we all have a strange shut in friend.

Everything is shot so beautifully and cold. 

Why is there so much fixation and criticism on the nudity??? It was hardly sexual?? 

The men were longing for comfort through the touch of skin. Except that one horribly uncomfortable scene. Who am I to talk about sex work though. I’ve had 6 beers writing this.

There’s not even that much nudity? Not a swimming pool movie but could’ve been a great had it featured a pool.

Watched on Valentine’s Day because love is dead and stupid hahahaha.

There’s a certain heartache to meeting and leaving strangers abroad while alone that this film captures really well.

The film is only racist from Bill Murray’s character perspective. The conversation around it is also kinda boring upon rewatch. 

Cinematography is very Poolside coded. Camera bobs and floats alongside its characters. 

The hotel pool is gorgeous. The entire hotel is so liminal. 

Marriage looks bad. I don’t have much else to say.

I had to resist the urge to just write I love milfs in capital letters as the review.

Venn diagram of: Ben Mendelsohn, James Frecheville and someone asking “Are you gay?” and it’s this and Animal Kingdom. 

I will always trust Margaret’s Pomeranz opinions on everything. I don’t think people realise how much of a gem this is. I don’t understand the controversy there such a skill in making a strangely beautiful movie about unconventional intimacy. I laughed and cringed. 

As a swimming pool movie it ticks a lot of boxes. Coastal australia looks so beautiful on screen I think it might be the best looking I’ve ever seen the country. Skin and sand glow with overexposed sunlight.

A cigarette is shared on a floating pontoon. A guy tells his best friend to take a job in Sydney and to not worry about not seeing his mum. This mother is then jealous of said best friend seeing a girl his own age. Sweat, sun, love, longing. It’s all here. I can’t help but laugh while I’m uncomfortable.

There’s a lot of great ocean shots but sadly no pools. 

Great soundtrack reminded me that Hearts on fire cut copy and 2 hearts Kylie exist.

Not a single role was weak not a single character arc was uninteresting. The lead was amazing, Ayo and Jeremy were so fun, Jacob is actually so fun to watch on screen. 

Love this kinda rabbit hole movie. Beau is afraid double feature

LA Is definitely the spot for pools. I always believe that the context of watching a film adds to its enjoyment. This was consumed on a gay porn site in 480p quality after a hot summers beach day. The lofi texture and graininess adds to its sleazy narrative.

Overlapping dialogue on top of footage is very SPM™️, Spring Breakers etc. Having a narration/narrator is not lazy writing it’s beautiful. The porn set is the pool. Performers sweat under the sun of the spotlight. 

+1000 points tainted love plays but -1000 points because there’s yodelling. The cutting scene was a bit intense but I could imagine it being cool if nightcore music was playing over the top.

One of the most dramatic trips into a pool I’ve ever seen. I mean truly. I had to rewind.

I googled during the start if Graceland mansion had a pool and was so excited for it to make its appearance while watching and was not disappointed at all. 

I think it just scrapes it’s way into the Swimming Pool Movie genre. It takes a while but once the mansion and summer scenes come around I could basically smell the chlorine. The emptiness and long shots of boredom felt by Priscilla are what SPM’s are about. Feelings of longing for a relationship to improve or change.

Both leads carried their roles so well. Elordi’s Elvis is unintentionally hilarious. Spaeny was so good on screen.

The love interest is wasian with coloured hair who wants to be a tattoo artist.

sometimes you just throw something on to waste time

Life is painful

Edit: stopped after 30 minutes

“I sucked her husbands cock and it made me realise we all make mistakes”

I wrote some ramblings about this in my notes app but it devolved into ramblings about Australia.

Here’s some of it:

Damn this was really sad. Great poolside scenes.

It’s about fitting in and not fitting in. I almost put this closer to WAWWA and Call me by your name on the Swimming Pool Movies chart I’m working on . The way characters use music as an outlet makes this a Luca guadagnino film.

The colours are gorgeous. There’s so much energy in every frame and in the way the characters are so mean to each other. Why aren’t Australians charming anymore. Even in the nastiness I was still compelled by the actions of every person. We had some kind of swagger at this point in time that has since been diluted by our previous generations lack of talent and imagination. Are we not funny as a culture anymore? During my time in broadcast tv it’s kinda obvious that the culture has trouble moving on from this era. We’re not fun anymore. Muriel’s Wedding is fun. What happened

Definitely a swimming pool movie and I really enjoyed it but I didn’t think it was strong enough to be properly analysed as one. I think Force Majeure would be a stronger entry from Ostlund 

Really liked the ending. Love when he uses contemporary music.

I developed a crush on Charlbi Dean whilst watching this and I’m so sad to learn of her ing

I don’t think I’ve ever felt so empty after a film finished before. 

I think there was a weird sting in my heart as this concluded. There were some significant feelings and big conversations in my early adult years about having children and I’ve spent those years and the ones following with many complicated feelings about fatherhood and the potential of a young parent. I subsequently buried these moments. 

I didn’t think a movie could unlock those feelings for me again. I love Paul mescal. 

From my notes on this as a Swimming Pool Movie:

God movies are great 

After sun is without a doubt a SPM. It captures the softer side of the genre similar to Somewhere. It’s about reconnection and preserving memory. The young Sophie captures her dad through her camcorder. This is how he will be ed. The hotel swimming pool is a place of forced gathering. “Something to do” while you kill time with the people you travel with. Time doesn’t exist here. 

Splashes, taps running, families chatting, the nostalgic beep of a video camera. A father and daughter hold hands in the holiday sun. Pink skin glows against the brightest blues. Time is so warped. Dialogue and action does not align with the images on screen. Montages without music. Life is meant to be lived.

Has shaken up the SPM™️ formula. 

Great swimming pool scene that steals the show even if it only lasts a minute.

From my notes:
  
Thematically far from heaven is a swimming pool movie although I wonder if the score is too intense. What do swimming pool movies need to achieve aurally to be considered one? I still believe diagetic sound is important and this features a lot of good foley. Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaids characters are essential swimming pool archetypes. Both are looking for a reason to vacation away from the monotony of their suburban lifestyles. One enjoys a cool daiquiri in a bar away from her life and the other yearns for a romance forbidden to him. 

It shares campness and colour with Dear Ex. The neon blues of far from heaven is the pool itself. It’s when people are deep in drama. Dennis quaid and Julianne Moore yell and scream whilst half hidden in shadow. The veil of their suburban dream is lifted and we see them as the animals we are all capable of being. Real conversations are being had. The pool is a place for vulnerability.

Can a SPM be something you watch next to a swimming pool? What if it’s the type of movie that needs to be enjoyed in a physical context. I watched far from heaven sweating on a summers day. I can’t imagine watching this in winter. SPM’s brings heat. They can bring calm. They make you sweat. I was sweating while watching this.

Condensation and conversation

So so close to a Swimming Pool Movie ™️

Early 2000s were an era

It looked like a Kmart ad. I feel the need to buy anko plates now. This is tourism nsw propaganda. Enough with the wasian love interests we have rights too. After the movie Kim said a group of American teenagers from the same cinema were in the bathroom talking excitedly about how much the movie looked like Sydney. As we were leaving they said dancing around and filming a tiktok and we awkwardly hid our faces and dodged the camera.

Yorgos got that dog in him

Emma stone does simple Jack

It was good to have in the background while I made xmas cards

There’s a bit where the girl tells him to lose on purpose to prove his love to her and this had an affect on my younger self and the way I viewed romance

In 10-15 years we will be nostalgic for the classic scenes this film has gifted us.

It’s nice to see such good representation for the bath water drinker community.

Yup

So beautiful so engaging, an eepy reviewer fell asleep three times during the long runtime 🫂🫣

When I saw this in cinemas I I couldn’t stop laughing throughout because anytime an animal appeared on screen I’d lean over to my friend and choke back my laughter asking “what kind of fox is that”

Rly rly fun, was gorier than I expected

Making a list of movies that include this and the whale about marrying beautiful women to be gay on the side hell yeah

He’s a 10 but he googled pride and prejudice explained

70% of my body is made of movies

My early twenties colourised

Cute! Another win for Margot Robbie’s characters as she’ll be the most popular Halloween costume for another 5 years

Felt amped up to watch a boxing movie after a great week of inoue v Fulton and then spence jr v Crawford. 

The sports greatest athletes have a notorious reputation of being violent domestically, gervonta being the latest to be charged unfortunately. The film doesn’t shy away from this, wives are yelled at and pushed around for existing. 

Deniro’s character is a psycho and I would never want to be in the same room with someone like this. The banter between him and pesci is crazy. God I love scorsese 

My boxing partner Jeremy pointed out on Wikipedia that while most boxers will have their Legal Issues section filled with charges of assault and domestic violence, Crawford is the only one who went to jail because he didn’t like how a mechanic repaired his car and caused a ruckus trying to fix it himself when he brought the car back hahahahahhahahahhhhhah

Told my friend there were no Japanese people and it was 3 hours of men yelling and he said that’s how people describe it’s always sunny in Philadelphia and if this is Nolan’s always sunny then I stand by it

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

You’re at video ezy/blockbuster and you need an extra film for the 5 weekly rentals. This ends up being the best of the 5 you’ve chosen to rent. It’s fun and easy to watch. Could see this becoming someone’s comfort film

“ You are who you choose to be “

Reminds me of the old comics I would read in high school and made me nostalgic for my time at university

This review may contain spoilers.

I booked this solo at sff2023 in hopes of it to help release some tension and provide catharsis to my recent heartbreak. on the way to the film I received the news of a two close friends going through heartbreak of their own. I made my way to brunch before the movie trying to pretend everything was fine instead I found myself with the selfish thought of wanting to take away all the forthcoming pain away from them. Why should they have to feel what they’re about to feel when I’m already going through it and can take it away for them? I thought it was hilarious that I was about to see a romantic movie under with all this weighing on my mind.

The movie started. I was weeping already from the flashbacks. I couldn’t laugh at anything that was funny. All the conversations felt too real. The awkwardness felt real. The insecurities felt real. None of the three characters did anything wrong. Everyone was doing the best they could under the circumstances. Everyone was trying to reach out and make connections across language barriers.

“I didn’t know liking your husband would hurt this much” cried hard

“You and me have inyun” cried hard

The tension while waiting for the Uber. Cried hard 2

The sudden flash frame of them as kids again. Cried hard with a vengeance 

“What if this is a past life” I’m crying while typing. thinking of this.

Felt pretty mortified when the lights and the credits came on for a bit.

The couple to my left seamed pretty bored as they couldn’t stop checking their phone for the time. It was a bit distracting. Fair enough though the movie could come across as slow.

The lady to my right was also a solo watcher and was weeping at the end as well. She asked if I was ok and I couldn’t really speak without my voice breaking but assured her I was ok and we agreed it was a perfect festival film. 

The context of how I watch a movie is part of how I enjoy it and I don’t think I’ve experienced anything like this before.

They got me

Movies that feature blood AND cum AND piss >

I feel that the video essayists with either have a field day or not know what to do

I think I’d rather watch one good Wes Anderson than a collection of ok ones

I tend to avoid anything alt right related due to its ick factor but after hearing about what the original artist has been trying to do in reclaiming his frog I was curious to check this out. The film was sweet. I felt a lot for the cartoonist and really enjoyed the ending.

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Watched on Thursday March 23, 2023.

Watched on Thursday March 23, 2023.

Great strokes song. This reminds me of a summer at the end of 2020 that I don’t want to forget  🏝️

On a bathroom wall I wrote
I'd rather argue with you than to be with someone else

Watched on Saturday March 18, 2023.

Watched on Wednesday March 8, 2023.

Everything was wax

Swimming pool movies are a genre, a state of mind. Just because a movie features a swimming pool does not make it a swimming pool movie. A pool may be absent from a movie entirely. 

These movies are about love, longing, sweat and sun. Missed connections and forgotten family. Wandering eyes and deceitful desires.

• Swimming Pool
• Spring Breakers
• A Bigger Splash
• Rotting in the Sun
• Lost in Translation
• Somewhere
• We Are Who We Are
• Holiday
• Under the Silver Lake
• Zola

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• La Haine
• Creed

When people tell me to watch something and I tell them "I'll add it to my list" and then I never end up watching it

• Tiger King
• Training Day
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Boy
• Jojo Rabbit
• Squid Game

• Animal Kingdom
• These Final Hours
• The Rover
• Snowtown
• The Loved Ones
• Predestination
• Hounds of Love
• The Babadook
• Sweet Country
• Babyteeth

• Pig
• Manchester by the Sea
• Waves
• James White
• Shame

• Devs
• Maniac