“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
— André Breton
TOP 8 WLW MOVIES OF ALL TIME
For this pride month I've made this list, I hope you guys enjoy it.
Disclaimers: It's just my opinion, and not in any particular order except for number one. I still have some classic movies to watch like Persona, Desert Hearts, Bound and Mulholland Drive. And no, Carol and Disobedience are not in my top 10.
8. You Can Live Forever
Info: Canada, 2022. Directed by Sarah Watts and Mark Slutsky. Main cast Anwen O'Driscoll and June LaPorte.
7. Summerland
Info: UK, 2020. Directed by Jessica Swale. Main cast Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
6. The Favourite
Info: UK/USA, 2018. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Main cast Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman.
5. The Summer of Sangailė
Info: Lithuania, 2015. Directed by Alante Kavaite. Main cast Aistė Diržiūtė and Julija Steponaitytė.
4. The Handmaiden
Info: South Korea, 2016. Director by Chan-wook Park. Main cast Kim Min-hee and Kim Tae-ri.
3. Thelma
Info: Norway, 2017. Directed by Joaquim Trier. Main cast Eili Harboe and Kaya Wilkins.
2. Saving face
Info: USA/China, 2004. Directed by Alice Wu. Main cast Michelle Krusiec and Lynn Chen.
1. Portrait of a lady on fire
Info: France, 2019. Directed by Céline Scimma. Main cast Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant.
Yes, POLOF is my favorite MOVIE of all time. And one day I'm gonna watch a movie who is worth of this list so I can complete number 9 and 10.
“If it costs you your peace it’s too expensive”
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Of lost chances, forbidden love and remorse.
It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Films in frame: Past lives, La la land, Fleabag, Normal People, In the mood for love, Atonement, Potrait of a lady on fire, Maurice, Blue Valentine, Her
right person, wrong time (variations on heartbreak)
@leemartenspoetry on tumblr
vita sackville-west & fegan’s 1924 café in dublin
everything everywhere all at once (2022)
@heavensghost on tumblr
i had to get out by indigo de souza
‘calling a wolf a wolf' by kaveh akbar
river by joni mitchell
‘english song’ in a little larger than the entire universe: selected poems by fernando pessoa
slumber by ron hicks
fish in exile by vi khi nao
penitent magdalene by antonio ciseri
@ojibwa on tumblr
this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & the awakening by angelo morbelli
as good as it gets by fizz
lonely this christmas by mud & picture of the christmas tree at trinity college dublin, taken by me in december of 2022
this is what the drugs are for by gracie abrams & picture by andrew collins via globalnews.ca
@inanotherunivrs on tumblr & a polaroid of me taken by my ex-boyfriend
‘in a dream you saw a way to survive’ by clementine von radics & a picture of my ex-boyfriend's window, taken by me
bluets by maggie nelson & the poolbeg generating station, dublin
‘unrequited’ by sasha m george & inheritance by matthew w. cornell
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@ faraway on instagram & lavender sprigs farm cut by linda jacobus
the museum of heartbreak by meg leder
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‘seaside improvisation’ by richard siken
@ dracarysgang on twitter
@-love-letters-i-never-sent
@fromdarzaitoleeza on tumblr
explosions by ellie goulding
‘i had a dream about you’ by richard siken
the beatrice letters by lemony snicket
la la land (2016)
‘catalog of unabashed gratitude’ by ross gay
@stuckinapril on tumblr
@deathlywounded on tumblr
some are always hungry by jihyun yun
‘speaking practice’ by franny choi
a self-portrait in letters by anna sexton & a picture of my ex-boyfriend in a lake in Orfű, Hungary
@sunsbleeding on tumblr
‘there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying’ by p.d
If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
— Maya Angelou
Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
The Lumineers; Dead Sea
(source: @qvotext on instagram)
“Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?”
— Jojo Moyes (via quotemadness)
not normal about orpheus and eurydice. you loved someone so much it opened the stones of the underworld. so much that death had to listen. so much that everything stopped for your love. so much that you turned around. so much that even when you did wrong. she forgave you.