Easily my favorite cinema experience I’ve had a while. a thrilling, sensual, tragic, moving ride that envelops you into its atmosphere from the very start and never lets go. excellent characterization in the first hour so you feel emotionally invested in these characters and their stories before things get wild. I’ve seen some complaints that the first act is too long before they get into any vampirism, but with characters so grounded and real, and every conversation oozing with history…

i truly wanted to love this, it’s entertaining enough, but there’s some key issues preventing me from being on board with this, namely how little we know about anora at all. 

mikey madison is incredible and gives such a sympathetic performance capturing all of Ani’s feistiness and vulnerability, but it can’t make up for the fact that we as an audience have no idea what her motivations are and thus it affects the framing of the story. there’s little details…

a really poignant look at the complicated relationship dynamics between sisters and very stark differences in the way we deal with impending loss. the sisters’ assumptions about each other are challenged when put together under one roof and forced to confront their father’s death, and as they uncover each others’ true intentions we as an audience are able to learn more about these characters and go past the archetype they represent on the surface. it’s a really great acting showcase…