Sex that transmutes love.
An intellectually rigorous examination that never loses warmth.
Earnest, mature and endearing the whole way through.

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And Im glad I waited to see it in a theatre, he wrote.
Had no idea it was shot on emulsion.
I may be reaching, but theres a tension between the grain and the focus here.
A delicate tension for sure.
A struggle to resolve.
A fleeting, elegiac struggle to resolve.
Jenkins called the film a supremely delicate and humane work, thats also elegant and brilliant in its modesty.
And theres no more direct way to access ones true self.