the spirited away poster stays ON during heartbreak

For as familiar as a film like this may seem, this is a breath of fresh air. So much fragility and beautiful body language. Sucks that every time I hear the title I think of that one Macklemore song from 2011. But anyway, sorry, great movie. I'll revisit that one-shot at the party quite a bit.

beautiful and tender – unsaid words are expressed in movement and love is corporeal. i’m floored, i love this movie so much.

i was so amused when merab left up his spirited away poster during his breakdown when i first watched this, but this time i noticed that the first time irakli was at his house, he saw the poster and commented on it being the same as his tattoo.. and it was the first time merab felt seen by irakli, the first time he realized he was noticing him, and leaving the poster up was an act of holding on to a memory. allowing a moment of sadness to swallow you up, but not wanting to erase everything that led you there. because yes, sadness can stem from a loss, but there are pieces or mementos that can make it feel like more bearable. a reminder of what was; a reminder that the love will always live inside you.

AFI 2019: film #7

“you can take it. i don’t need it anymore”

this was so graceful and full of life, radiating a contagious energy that hooked me immediately. one of the cinematic highlights of the year for so many reasons and such a good close to this fest for me

and then we logged onto letterboxd dot com to give this movie the five stars that it deserves!!!!!

merab dancing to honey by robyn in dim lighting while irakli watches with a sort of love and yearning in his eyes...when i tell you i gasped and started crying

when he took down all of his posters and left the spirited away one up... okay cinephile i see you! what’s your letterboxd king?

the way that this movie makes me go fucking feral

Gay people staring longingly at each other while Take A Chance On Me plays... I love cinema 😭

I loved this so much. It was beautiful and soft and honest. Merab was such a sweet character and I was just rooting for his happiness the whole time. 

The gay yearning in this!!! Ugh I loved it. I loved the dancing! The choreography was amazing. Any movie that involves a seductive dance to a robyn song is immediately iconic.

the spirit of the nation is not georgian dance, the spirit of the nation is dancing to honey by robyn while bathed in a yellow light & being lovingly gazed at by the one you adore

The Spirited Away poster stays up

Love this film, letting go, being free, and doing what the f*@$ he wants.

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

BSKSBSIAHAAABAH

beautiful and sad and happy. merab having a spirited away poster in his room confirmed everything i needed to know about him.

A really beautiful movie that effectively uses dance, music, and tradition to tell its story. The inclusion of traditional Georgian music, ABBA, and "Honey" by Robyn perfectly compliment the scenes they're in. A highlight was the scene where he's ripping everything off his walls but leaves up the poster of Chihiro on her journey on the train.

Recuerdo ver esta película en cartelera e ignorarla porque, por algún motivo, el póster me hizo pensar que era una comedia francesa para señoras de mediana edad

thank god he didn’t tear down the Spirited Away poster

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I can't wait to watch this again god it's so fucking beautiful

"There is no room for weakness in Georgian dance."

Such an unexpected breath of fresh air and manages to say quite a lot with very little.

The tension of masculine and feminine in movement is one that every dancer knows all too well. It's really impressive when filmmaking manages to capture themes like this with such delicate expression. There's an invigorating energy to this story and its characters. Against a backdrop of compellingly intimate cinematography, the embedded significance and collision of Georgian culture, religion, and gender and sexuality expectations resonate at full force.

true love makes the highest mountains look like hills.

growing up in a nigerian household, i was exposed to the deeply rooted homophobia of my culture at a young age. a cousin of mine had come into a family party with his boyfriend, and it wasn’t long until he had been physically and verbally pushed out of the event, and our family circle as a whole. little did i know, that a culture halfway across the globe was struggling with that same issue of acceptance.

and then we danced is a touching coming-of-age story with obstacles and hardships not always known to viewers in western countries with progressive views and acceptance towards the LGBTQ communities. this film served as a window into a reality i knew all too well; a clash between the older and younger generations, a clash between intolerance and integration

Whiplash meets Call Me By Your Name. Some really great moments in here but overall felt quite long by the end for me 😕

I just want to watch this movie alone in a theater with a small bag of popcorn and some tissues for my tears. 

the wedding scene was insane.

this movie has beautiful perspective.

watch it!!