Sally Hawkins is doing a late period Liz Taylor thing here and it’s…. it’s really something!!!

Huge step up from Talk to Me, which is not much different than this one but I found it to be a whole lot more dull. So so close to New French Extremity this time around but juuuuust misses…. trauma/grief horror is far beyond tired but this works best when it leans into Hagsploitation.

Leisl the Novitiate is perhaps Wes Anderson’s best character creation since Margot Tenenbaum. In fact, I would say Mia Threapleton blows just about any other Anderson heroine out of the water. I like this a lot in the moments where it becomes A Matter of Life and Death instead of the usual twee screwball antics. Otherwise, it’s a lot of the same: ornate, funny and tedious in equal measure. Wes must be so pissed every time he clicks on his wiki and sees Houston as his birthplace.

I was thrilled to learn that Marie Antoinette was a fan of The Strokes

I’m blonde I’m skinny I’m rich and I’m a little bit of a bitch