#id answer le otto montagne for vibes are immaculate movies but you all knew that

[youssefguedira]

7, 12, & 20 for the movie recs? 👀

7: a film in your native language

this is truly a chance for me to rec Anything (in english) so i'll say my most beloveds scrapper and theater camp! they're both lovely lovely movies. i realise i should start adding plot summaries to these so. scrapper follows a 12-year-old girl living alone (by fooling social services) after her mum dies, until her dad (played by harris dickinson for the trust fx fans out there) shows up suddenly. that sounds like it's gonna be dramatic and maybe sad but its SO so delightful and colorful and full of heart. please watch scrapper it's a little british indie thing that's super special to me

theater camp is about a, well, a theater camp, after its founder falls into a coma and her idiot finance bro son has to try and run it. hysterically funny. got ayo edebiri and molly gordon from the bear and also a cast of kids who are just so so fun!!! never fails to make me happy ive never wanted to applaud a film more. pure cinematic joy

12: a film whose main genre is horror/thriller

i am NOT a horror person generally but one i do adore is the devil's backbone. guillermo del toro film that is like pan's labyrinth's little brother to me. deals with a group of kids of (i think) spanish resistance fighters in a home, and also there's a ghost. great if you like somewhat sympathetic ghosts as manifestations of trauma and also movies where fascism is the villain. it and pan's labyrinth (which some do consider a horror film i think? but this is more overt with it) are both so good i love em

20: a film where the vibes are immaculate

i could answer this with scrapper or theater camp but i am taking "vibes are immaculate" as "movies i could live in" so i'm gonna answer perfect days, which is a movie of pretty much nothing BUT vibes that is also one of the most wonderful things i've seen all year so far. follows a toilet cleaner in tokyo just going about his life. really special cinema experience and the kind of movie to get entirely lost in. just made everything feel more beautiful when i got out of the cinema! though it's very slow and not a lot happens plot or tension wise so it's not gonna be for everyone