will you look me in the eyes & hold my gaze?

absolutely bonkers

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Presque rien (Sébastien Lifshitz, 2000)

[sacredwhores]

Heiny Srour - Leila and the Wolves (1984)

[greyheadedjaco]

Montréal, Ma Belle (Montréal, My Beautiful)

[rapturousrot]

Isabelle Huppert on her role in The Piano Teacher (2001) directed by Michael Haneke, from an interview c. 2017

[sacredwhores]

Michael Haneke - Lemmings, Part II: Injuries (1979)

[sacredwhores]

Olivier Assayas - Irma Vep (1996)

[ofallingstar]

The Love Witch (2016)

[initialsbb]

A Different Image (1982) dir. Allie Sharon Larkin

[059004a]

[sesiondemadrugada]

The Rats Woke Up (Živojin Pavlović, 1967).

[petaltexturedskies]

I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother earth, your comfort is great, your arms never withhold. It has saved my life to know this. Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning. Oh, motions of tenderness!

Mary Oliver, "Loneliness" from Thirst

[hommedessept]

[1gmoney]

I look back n realize everything had to go like that

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Mountains and coastlines of O'ahu, Hawaii

Taken January 2026

[scenesandscreens]

The Killing Fields (1984)

Director - Roland Joffé, Cinematography - Chris Menges

"If anybody ever gets to read about this, you won't be able to look them in the face!"

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you can always start making a beautiful life for yourself even if you’ve lost some years to grief. your entire life does not need to be a perfect story, and it always doesn’t have to be only good or only bad. it’s gotta be a lot of both.

[bongjoonhoe]

Sentimental Value (2025) dir. Joachim Trier