Screenshot from French film The Sky Above Paris. Two women are walking together, wearing casual work clothes. The older one on the left asks the younger woman on the right: "You believe in friendship?"

Screenshot from French film The Sky Above Paris. Two women are are standing together, wearing casual work clothes. The younger woman on the right is gazing down, smiling slightly, answering: "Friendshio lasts, love fades."

📽️ Le ciel de Paris [The Sky Above paris]. Directed by Michel Béna, 1991. #OccasionalFilmPost

Screenshot from the 1995 American movie While You Were Sleeping. Lucy, played by charm radiator Sandra Bullock, a thirtysomething white woman with shoulder length dark brown hair, is smiling brightly with her whole face.

Screenshot from the 1995 American movie While You Were Sleeping. Lucy, played by a luminous Sandra Bullock, a thirtysomething white woman with shoulder length dark brown hair pulled messily into a ponytail, is laughing most amusedly.

Screenshot from the 1995 American movie While You Were Sleeping. Lucy, played by stealer of hearts Sandra Bullock, a thirtysomething white woman with shoulder length dark brown hair, is looking intently at someone with a slight smile on her face.

Screenshot from the 1995 American movie While You Were Sleeping. Jack, played by the most charming Bill Pullman, a fortysomething white man with attractively floppy light brown hair, and Lucy, played by an incredible Sandra Bullock, a thirtysomething white woman with shoulder length dark brown hair, are leaning very close together, both smiling happily. Her arms are around his neck.

#WhileYouWereSleeping We lost so much when Sandra Bullock decided to become a Serious Actress. 😭

(It's been a while since an #OccasionalFilmPost! 📽️)

Screenshot from the film mentioned in the post. A young woman and a young man are standing on a dock, wearing casual clothes. The closed captions read: "Friendship is serious."

Same as previous. The closes captions continue: "Perhaps even more so than love."

📽️ Conte d'été [A Summer’s Tale]. Directed and written by Éric Rohmer, 1996.

Screenshot from the film The Blue Caftan. Two golden threads over a stunning silky-looking petroleum blue fabric.

Screenshot from the film The Blue Caftan. A curly-haired middle-aged man is washing the hair of his wife, a middle-aged dark-haired woman.

Screenshot from the film The Blue Caftan. Two men's hands are lying next two each other. The fingers of the hand on the right are gently resting on those of the hand of the left.

Screenshot from the film The Blue Caftan. Two hands are delicately peeling away the pith from a tangerine.

"All my life, I tried."

📽️ أزرق القفطان [The Blue Caftan]. Directed by Maryam Touzani, written by Maryam Touzani and Nabil Ayouch, cinematography by Virginie Surdej, 2022.

A screenshot from the film All We Imagine as Light. Night scene tinged in blue. Prabha (Kani Kusruti) is sitting in a kitchen, in front of a window, with her back to it. She's wearing a purple dress, light in both color and fabric. She's reading something (a poem) on a small notebook using her phone's torchlight. Buildings and a passing train peek out from behind the curtains, their windows the only other spots of color (faint blues and oranges) and light.

A screenshot from the film All We Imagine as Light. Prabha (Kani Kusruti)'s hand is blocked by that of a man, he's holding her wrist, stopping her from attending to the wound on his chest. The scene is again dark. Prabha is wearing a burned-orange tunic and a bracelet.

A screenshot from the film All We Imagine as Light. It's an extreme close-up of a man holding Prabha's palm with both of his hands, placing a kiss at the center of it. The scene is very dark.

A screenshot from the film All We Imagine as Light. Prabha (Kani Kusruti) is sitting on the floor, wearing a purple floral dress, light in both color and fabric. Her knees are splayed, and she has her arms wrapped around a red rice cooker. The scene is very dark.

"That's life. You better get used to impermanence."

📽️ പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലാം [All We Imagine as Light]. Directed and written by Payal Kapadia, cinematography by Ranabir Das, 2024.
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A black-and-white wide shot. Meral, played by Sema Özcan, is standing alone on the edge of footbridge, staring at the sea; islands are visible in the distance. The weather is stormy, the waves are breaking.

Halil, played by Müşfik Kenter, and his friend Mustafa, played by Fadıl Garan, are sitting on a boat, next to each other. They are gazing forward. On Halil's left is a quite large framed photograph of Meral; she seems to be staring at the audience.

Medium closeup of Halil and Meral, soaking wet, standing next to each other under a road tunnel, shielding themselves from additional rain. They are both wearing trench coats: his is dark; hers is light. They are not looking at each other, gazing instead at nothing. Their expressions are desolate.

A full shot of Halil and Meral, standing in the same frame, on a cliff, again not looking at each other, staring at the sea instead. Halil's back is to the camera, while Meral is in profile. Islands are visible in the distance, and the sky is immense.

"How can I share something that doesn't belong to her? My love belongs to me, it's mine."
"You're wrong. That's not how it is."

📽️ Sevmek Zamanı [Time to Love]. Directed and written by Metin Erksan, cinematography by Mengü Yeğin, 1965. MUBI. #OccasionalFilmPost

Julia Roberts as Anna in Notting Hill. She's looking down, smiling. Her dark hair is in a careless updo; she's wearing a dark sweater and a white t-shirt underneath it. The picture is cozy.

Julia Roberts as Anna in Notting Hill. The scene is dark. She's smiling as she looks up at William, played by Hugh Grant. He's holding her face.

Julia Roberts as Anna in Notting Hill. She is lying on a bed, amused and smiling broadly at William, played by Hugh Grant.

Julia Roberts as Anna in Notting Hill. It's a close-up of her face, absolutely radiant. She's beaming.

#OccasionalFilmPost Rewatched Notting Hill today, and Julia Roberts was as luminous and lovely and REALLY good at *looking* at her love interest as I remembered.

Barry Jenkins was so right when he said that her smile "could literally replenish you".