There is nothing anyone can give Félicité that she isn't earning or owed, and as the film moves, I settle in to the understanding that this is not meant to pummel the strength of a woman to remnants of residue that have a faint waft of reclamation.

Sometimes a situation appears dauntless, unfair and without regard to the goodness you've given away. If its a death, a diagnosis, a heartbreak or just circumstances slicing into your flesh like paper cuts…

Believability will yield a high rating from me all the time. Robert Eggers direction and eye make the camera a co-star in any film, but the camera work stuck out for me here more than any other films of his I’ve seen (still need to watch The Northman). From the beginning when Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) emerges from the darkness, the camera tells the tale of their affair in the shadows before we see the ground scene. When she confesses what…

I was sad when I saw this, but I didn’t cry. My grandfather, who I’m incredibly close to has dementia (or perhaps full blown Alzheimer’s - there is some unfortunate denial kept around his deterioration, and thus lack of information). When I see him, he cycles through the same story - stuck in the deepest crevices in his brain. The car company he was an executive surveyor of - wanted to relocate him, my grandmother, my mother and her four…

You know how your eyes can sometimes focus so much on what’s in front of you that you all out miss an important clue to the entire story in the background? Well that’s what happened in this 60 second short. I was really invested in the woman and man and how transfixed they were on each other. It reminded me how when you look at someone with love, you can be completely blinded to everyone and everything else around you.…