#close 2022

[waymond-wang]

EDEN DAMBRINE as LEO & GUSTAV DE WAELE as REMI

CLOSE (2022) dir. Lukas Dhont ↳ Imagine you’re a very small duckling. You just came out of your shell. You’ve just opened your eyes for the very first time. All the ducks are yellow, and so are you, but you’re much more beautiful than the others. You’re special. One day, you decide to leave, and you encounter a lizard. You’re wondering what it is, as you’ve never seen one before. You think that this lizard is odd. And it rhymes, too. But you like it, because its colour is special, just like you. One day, you leave together and you end up on a trampoline. You start jumping on the trampoline. You jump as high as the stars.

[everythingmaxriemelt]

Films I like in 2023 (some weren’t released in 2023 and I haven’t seen most of the newer films in other Best of 2023 lists)

So, in no particular order:

1. Anatomy of a Fall (dir. Justine Triet, 2023)

2. Past Lives (dir. Celine Song, 2023)

3. Close (dir. Lukas Dhont, 2022)

4. Afire / Roter Himmel (dir. Christian Petzold, 2023)

5. The Watcher (dir. Chloe Okuno, 2022)

6. The Eight Mountains (dir. Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2022)

7. Tár (dir. Todd Field, 2022)

8. Passages (dir. Ira Sachs, 2023)

9. One Fine Morning (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve, 2022)

10. Talk to Me (dir. Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, 2022)

Other films I like in 2023:

Saltburn (dir. Emerald Fennell, 2023)

Ernesto’s Island (dir. Ronald Vietz, 2022)

Barbarian (dir. Zach Cregger, 2022)

The Quiet Girl (dir. Colm Bairéad, 2022)

Bottoms (dir. Emma Seligman, 2023)

Emily The Criminal (dir. John Patton Ford, 2022)

[wasco]

maybe my friends can be the great loves of my life

seven - Taylor Swift // Dead Poets Society (dir. Peter Weir) // A Little Life - Hanya Yanigahara // Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig // The Orange - Wendy Cope // Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (dir. John Hughes) // The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky // dedication on a bench // The Miseducation of Cameron Post (dir. Desiree Akhavan) // dorothea - Taylor Swift // Close (dir. Lukas Dhont) // Frances Ha (written by Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig) // The Perks of Being a Wallflower (dir. Stephen Chbosky) // The Long and Short of It - Richard Siken // The Goldfinch (dir. John Crowley) // Graceland Too - Phoebe Bridgers

[toneelspeelster]

close (2022) + male intimacy

[dailyworldcinema]

CLOSE (2022)          dir. Lukas Dhont

[cloudtinn]

Close (2022), dir. Lukas Dhont.

[sevenpixels]

Close (2022)

dir. Lukas Dhont

[happy-xy]

CLOSE (2022) Directed by Lukas Dhont

[escapismthroughfilm]

#177

[guillotineman]

Close (2022, dir. Lukas Dhont)

[sidxlune]

Close (2022) | Lukas Dhont | DOP: Frank van den Eeden Cela commence à vous briser le cœur à 44:38.

[cinematicparadiso]

Close (2022) dir. Lukas Dhont

[inbestigator]

Close 2022

[devouringyourson]

it doesn't matter if close (2022) is a queer love story between two young boys bc it doesn't even matter if either of them are actually queer!! they are children enjoying intimacy and emotional connection in whatever form that takes and it was beautiful like the whole point of the film is that homophobia and toxic masculinity ruins childhood relationships it's destroying friendships and male connection. There is absolutely nothing wrong with two young boys loving each other, platonically or romantically and god I just wanna go hug every young boy in the world and tell them it's okay

[grctagerwig]

the five stages of grief (part four): depression

right where you left me by taylor swift // young royals // all the young dudes // close // hallelujah by haim // midsommar // a daughter of eve by christina rossetti

[notsosecretlyalesbian]

CLOSE (2022) dir. Lukas Dhont