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Dean (6925 KP) rated Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020) in Movies

Aug 22, 2021  
Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020)
Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020)
2020 | Drama, Thriller
3
3.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Rather pointless (0 more)
Lost its way
Not heard of this before it popped up on Sky cinema based on a successful novel of the same title. A different direction for Alexandra Daddario who seems to have churned out lots of low budget Rom Coms most recently.
This is an odd bleak character study which feels a bit like Lost in Translation crossed with 9 1/2 weeks but falling way short of either of them. Her character is a bit of drifter in Tokyo, always drunk and meeting random men for meaningless sex in the love hotels. Until she meets by chance a Yakuza gangster who she begins an affair with.
There was a lot more potential in this, it tries to be quite art house but most of the film is filled with shots of her drunk in a bar with friends, staggering around Tokyo at night or with random men. The Yakuza angle is barely explored with Kazu and they spend very little time together as well. Apparently a good 45mins has been cut and the film has been on the shelf a while after being filmed late 2017.
The end result is a brief character study of someone at rock bottom of life. Unfortunately it's quite dull for the most part, not erotic either. It's a shame as it could have been a lot better with a few plot angles explored more.
  
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Sarah Betts (103 KP) rated Zoey Fools Around (Making Out, #1) in Books

Dec 31, 2019  
ZF
Zoey Fools Around (Making Out, #1)
Katherine Applegate | 1994
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
These books were originally called Boyfriend/Girlfriends.

Zoey has grown up on a small Maine island and is feeling a bit restless. Then, Lucas, the guy who went to jail for killing her boyfriend's older brother in a drunk driving accident comes back to the island.

Zoey is with Jake
Jake hates Lucas
Lucas used to be with Claire
Claire used to go out with Lucas, is now dating Benjamin, and teams up with Jake to try and get rid of Lucas
Benjamin is Zoey's brother
Nina is Claire's sister and has a crush on Benjamin
Aisha is relatively new to the island and is frantically trying NOT to be pursued by the determined Christopher.
  
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Miguel Arteta recommended Dodes'ka-den (1970) in Movies (curated)

 
Dodes'ka-den (1970)
Dodes'ka-den (1970)
1970 | Drama
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"This is a flawed film from the master, and I read in his autobiography that after it tanked, he tried to kill himself and did not make a film for five years. I love it! Such gorgeous vignettes, like the man who stops talking and loses all the color in his flesh after he finds out his wife cheated on him! Or the drunk couples who swap partners every night! He built a whole artificial dumpster on a stage and painted it in radiant colors, and then went about telling the most heartbreaking short stories of madness and despair in it. It’s like Raymond Carver on some very good acid, taking no prisoners!"

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