“The fragility of female flesh inspires disgust or brutality.” 🪞

Life bleeds between our legs; yet we’re cursed (by your hatred) for bringing forth The Origin of the World.

Juraj Herz’s achingly romantic retelling of Beauty and the Beast is exquisite! It embodies the fairy tale’s sensuality and self-sacrificial violence so eloquently that the film clawed its way into my heart and ignited an imioned sense of yearning I’ve only expressed in my dreams… 🥀

Morgiana is certainly my cup of (poisoned) tea — an early 1970s Czech New Wave film caked in gothic melodrama, coastal delirium, and garish make-up; where a spiteful spinster with a Siamese cat plots her sweet-natured sister’s demise… Oh, how I love watching scheming women spiraling out of control! 

If I had a cat, I’d want to pull off a vaguely similar look to Viktoria (Iva Janžurová) and wear eyeshadow the same color as its eyes!

I’ve spent the entire day processing Anora, attempting to articulate every emotion I experienced in the cinema — the (eventual) comedown as soon as I got home late last night. I’m honestly surprised by how much it moved me!

But all I can really say is that I couldn’t have picked a more perfect film to watch while celebrating the first year of my sobriety.