HONEY BOY (2019) dir. Alma Har'el
Before Sunrise, 1995
we’re just two slow dancers, last ones out
Maybe I’d feel different if I had done something and got caught, but I ain’t do nothing. They was playin’ with me because they knew they could. And look, I’m lucky that I only got two years because… when you in there they can do with you whatever they want. You hear me? What… ever… they want.
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) dir. Barry Jenkins
20th Century Women (2016) dir. Mike Mills
Honey Boy (2019) dir. Alma Har’el
You’ve known love. Yes. What does it feel like?
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) | dir. Céline Sciamma
the half of it (this movie!!!)
I love you, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.
MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012) dir. Wes Anderson
When you’re observing me, who do you think I’m observing?
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) — dir. Céline Sciamma, cinematography by Claire Mathon
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) dir. Barry Jenkins
The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook
VITA AND VIRGINIA (2018)
Midsommar (2019) dir. Ari Aster
Endings are tricky because we expect answers. Fifteen years ago, with my first film Saving Face, I got one recurring question: “Is this ending… too happy?” At the time, as much as I saw the truth in it for my characters, I confessed to not knowing if that happy ending could be expected in real life; but as a queer woman, I wanted - needed - to see it in order to believe it could happen for me. Now with The Half Of It I’m regularly peppered with questions over whether certain characters end up together in an ever-pointed crescendo toward “But is the ending happy?” (Ha!) My honest answer is that the point of the film isn’t about who ends up with whom. It’s about three people who collide in a moment-in-time before going their separate ways, each now holding the piece of themselves that allows them to become the person they are meant to be. The end of the film is each of their beginnings. And for my characters, I can think of no happier ending. - Alice Wu
The Half of It (2020) dir. Alice Wu
– Gravity is matter’s response to loneliness. – Who said that? – I don’t know. – Then you said it.
THE HALF OF IT (2020)
dir. Alice Wu