Gagaoolala

The intimacy and intensity of a stage play coupled with the intensity and intimacy of close film work. Still working on finding adequate words for this.

good disabiity rep in a small bit of the world where no one blinks twice with a same sex relationship. very much a comfort series vibe

so well done, both as a Japanese introvert BL and as a gentle spoof of Japanese introvert BL

Suspense/thriller that kept me looking in the wrong direction often enough it got me. Even though it was all there.

Mildly charming and fluffy. The artificial set-up of animals turn humans is a more natural uke/seme than many.

It's like they decided to redo Kinou Nani Tabeta as a Japanese-flavoured Thai uni BL. I think this would have worked better as a series.

An end of life love story between middle-aged lesbians with brilliant actresses. I've rated it high for them.
Let down though by some of the artistic choices from the Australian and male writer/screenwriter.
The foreign influence pervades, a Japanese director would have done this differently.

On their own, it's three short stories interconnected by two characters. Together, it's an invitation to look for other themes like valuing your own life and yourself for who you are.
Loved the gentle French chanson in Taiwan feel of the music.

Loved this so much. Lockdown provided the reason for the two to be alone together in a beach house; the actresses did the rest, with characters who felt real and truly friends who bring out the best in each other.

The same fantastic actresses as Matcha & Vanilla, and the same male western director, but this one is done as if it were a French silent film. I guess that is part of its artistic statement.

Wanted a short episode series to fill time on a bed rest day. This wasn't it.
Repressed Japanese teenage boys negotiating overwhelming feelings of love, lust and jealousy.

Unsettled and unsettling, but that's intentional, along with a relationship dynamic I found difficult and have seen too much of elsewhere. It does make sense here, especially as the thick symbolism reveals its meaning.
It's fair to say I admire it more in retrospect than I enjoyed watching it.

Not sure why I put myself through this to be honest. Club Friday - Inside the BL Industry. Where fan service and shipped couples are manufactured but they're all actually secretly gay, at least for their ship.

It's hardly original but it is very nicely done. I hope to see these young actors again.

There was something of a COA in the older one's story near the beginning. A sex scene focused on light touch even. Quiet depths in the emotions. Good big sister, found family. Bits of Thai from one character. Good music.

very short (9 min) documentary about third gender people and the military draft

Past trauma art film. Sometimes less is more, and sometimes less is just confusing.

Long lakorn which did brilliantly well with its dizzying array of complicated, emotional truths, but went on too long and eventually throw in enough twists the wire holding it altogether snapped for me.

Fluff with slightly bonkers energy, some serious issues handled well, some melodrama emotions and an episode I didn't care for, but over all it's good fun and has a great heart.

dir Nuchy Anucha (Not Me)

(and Present Still Perfect, 2020)

there's a season 2

free, don't know which cut

on Gaga as Finding the Adolescence - GL coming of age

Restart After Coming Back Home (listed on Gaga as)
movie 1 hr 39 min