Indie Film Release Guide: June 9th [An ONTD Original]

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We were supposed to go see Spider-Verse last night, but we didn't have enough steam to make it to the late showing for Dolby we planned on, so we are just gonna have to watch it in a regular theater (ugh) sometime in the next week. Curse you, Transformers!!

We did go to see Past Lives on Sunday night. I liked it a lot - Greta Lee was fabulous, it was beautifully shot, and I loved the score. But I did have some issues with it.

[Spoiler (click to open)]I loved the general concept, because yeah, there are people who mean a lot to you when you're young, and you don't even realize how much until later. I still think about friends I had when I was that age that I haven't seen since I moved when I was 12.

But I think the main reason I didn't *love* it was because of how uneven their "relationship" felt, in way that bordered on a bit creepy to me? Like, Hae-sung was obsessed with the idea of Nora without actually knowing much about her as a fully realized person, and that made it a lot less romantic to me.

I did love her relationship with her husband - those late night talks in bed can be very important in a marriage. And I loved that both men were emotionally vulnerable, because you don't see that enough. And I absolutely still cried at the end, lol.

Last night, while my husband was playing TotK, I watched The 39 Steps (1935), which has been on my list for forever. I really enjoyed it despite its many narrative conveniences - it's fast paced, funny, and tense.

Robert Donat was a great leading man, and reading about his life on Wikipedia afterward was kind of a bummer. He did a bunch of film and theater, but he had asthma that was debilitating to his career and relationships, and he thought it was 90% psychosomatic. Then he died of a brain tumor and cerebral thrombosis at 53.

Unfortunately, I feel like bummer wikipedias are very common with stars from this era. :/