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.