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MY SUMMER PLANS

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oh my god

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This is lit !!

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Tove Lo / 9th of october

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This is awesome.

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Dogville (2003)

Lars von Trier

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Can Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016) be defined as an arthouse film?

The poetic nature of the 36-year-old’s sixth studio album was met with a visual film piece that presented a powerful yet personal journey. The hour long film was narrated by Bey herself as she recounted her path of grief which follows:  Intuition, Denial, Anger, Apathy, Emptiness, Accountability, Reformation, Forgiveness, Resurrection, Hope, Redemption. Each step introduced music and visuals that uniquely represented her relationship with her husband Jay-Z but more importantly the relationship she held with herself. Bey also introduced cameos from women she admired like Serena Williams, Ibeyi, Quvenzhané Wallis, Chloe and Halle Bailey, etc. which all played an important role in integrating a group of women of color from a wide range of age and ethnicity. A highlight, however, that resonates with the raw honesty of the film was the Malcolm X  snippet from his 1962 speech “Who Taught You to Hate Yourself” in “Don’t Hurt Yourself” which read, “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.” This, along with the entirety of the poems in between each song, established that Lemonade was beyond a story of betrayal in marriage but the incredible defiance that has carried Black women forward throughout all of history. Perhaps, this film was meant to serve as an identifier of an artist’s reflection on autonomy and what its truly like to view the relationship Black women have with each other and with herself in a world that undeniably holds them as the backbone of society. 

Lemonade is a much more intellectually produced piece of art than pop culture has sought it to be. Bey has harvested electrifying lyrical compositions with  powerful thematic visual elements and set her art free within this cinematic masterpiece. Now, we must ask, does arthouse live within Lemonade?

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In The Mood For Love (2000)

Wong Kar-wai

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“See the smoke trembling under the roof as if with fright? Yet when it gets out in the air, it has the whole sky to swirl about in. But it doesn’t know that, so it huddles and trembles in the soot under the roof. It’s the same with people. They quiver like a leaf in the storm, afraid of what they know and what they don’t know.”

The Virgin Spring (1960)

Ingmar Bergman

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Un Chant D’amour

par Jean Genet 1950