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Beau Is Afraid 2023
No hot takes here, but this is not a 3-hour panic attack. Panic attacks come on fast and without warning—complete debilitating disruptions with what feels like immediate threat to life. This film takes its time, it ruminates, it catastrophizes, and it constructs—however illogical—logical systems and consequences, all of which are explored and exploded to the molecular level. This is living with and through anxiety.
Anxiety as a term is at risk of losing its meaning, and certainly has lost its… -
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
The pair initially conceptualized Evelyn as a woman with undiagnosed ADHD, a condition that in a way makes her uniquely equipped to tap into other universes. But, worried about treating the diagnosis reductively, Kwan started looking into it more deeply and was led to a startling revelation: “I basically stayed up until like four in the morning just researching. I was like ‘Oh no, oh no, what the hell,’” Kwan says. “Because it never crossed my mind that I could…