winter time watches
It snowed! Godbless. Hate the winter when it's not snowing. In my opinion it's not winter until it snows, it's hell. Love the snow. Love it. Do you know what else I love? Movies and tv shows. Do you know what I love even more?! Watching movies and tv shows during the winter time. These are some of my favorite things to watch during the winter time.
trouble every day (2001)
Do you like to feel uncomfortable? Do you like it when your skin feels like sheet metal? Are you a freak? If you said yes to 1 or more of these questions, this is the movie just for you! Scientist Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo) and his wife (Tricia Vessey) go to Paris on their honeymoon, but Shane has a secret motive. Instead of loving on his new bride during their honeymoon, he searches for an old colleague that he believes can help him find a cure for his…disease. On his journey, he rekindles an old relationship (Béatrice Dalle), and harasses a handful of women on the way. A Claire Denis film that has you truly appreciating her wonderful ability to create a character so grimey, and so helpless, that you may just fall in love with him. JUST KIDDING. no, i'm not. There is no snowfall in this movie, but there are jackets, a bit of rain and lots of coldness. Shivers, shivering. Shiverers shivering. You’re not warm. Some say it's a bit slow, I say sure, yah it can be a bit slow, but so worth it.
léon morin priest, (1961)
Taking place in Nazi occupied France, Barny (Emmanuelle Riva) a wise, bi-curious communist widow, is worried about her half jewish child, and decides to hide her in a village and get her baptized. There she meets an atrociously handsome priest named Léon Morin (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and forms a relationship with him, after realizing they share many of the same philosophies and ideals. Based on the novel by Béatrix Beck, adapted and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, this movie will only deepen your love of priesthood. For all the Fleabag (2016) lovers out there, there's a line in this movie that is also in Fleabag, and when you get to it, you will question everything, and then throw up all over the place. I love Jean-Paul Belmondo so very dearly, and this movie brings me closer to him with each watch. I'm not a big fan of Nazi movies, they either sympathize with the Nazis, or there's a betrayal and we find it that “he was a Nazi all along!” and I'm just sick of that shit. This Nazi movie does a great job at addressing the evil of Nazis without using them as plot points. I truly cant stress it enough, if you like Flebag, you’re gonna fuckin love this.
call me by your name (2017)
Somewhere in northern Italy, summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Italian, French, American, Jew named Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) is spending summer at his 17th century villa in Lombardy, Italy, when he meets Oliver (Armie Hammer (yikes)), a handsome, very aryan looking, aspiring doctor, who's a student of Elio's father for the summer. Throughout the season, Elio becomes more and more confused about his being, as his feelings for Oliver shift and grow. Based on the book by André Aciman, screenplay by James Ivory, and directed by my #1 guy, Luca Guadanino, were following the trials and tribulations of a queer young man, finding discovery, love and loss, in all the right places. To those of you who have seen the movie, you may be saying “What do you mean a winter movie? This whole movie takes place during the summer and reeks of boy sweat, Italy and confusion!” To that I say, touché! But may I remind you of the ending. Winter babe, it's winter. I believe that if a movie ends in snowfall it should be watched during snowfall. This movie leaves you feeling simultaneously helpless and hopeful while wrapping you in a big blanket made up of all of your regrets, hopes and lack of dreams. You are one with the story, therefore, one with the season, so watch it in the winter time. I also recommend watching the movie in the summer, only if you skip the wintery end. If you don't you will be very depressed. Speaking from only my experience, yes, but I feel very confident about this take.
I now realize that all these movies are romances in some way. That wasn't on purpose. Maybe that says something about me, I don't know. I was planning to write about tv shows but I don't want to. Maybe I'll write about that another time, but probably not. Im gonna go eat some food now. Stay safe out there and godbless.
-Pardis
