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demi adejuyigbe4.5

Damn, I love this movie. Annapurna showed me a cut last year and I went in with the feeling of "oh cool my friend made a thing that's nice" and left absolutely in awe. And I'm only more bowled away watching it again today! So clever, so fucking funny, so sweet and sexy and sad and stylish and unique and COOL. Unbelievably inspiring to see a really well-made, independent, microbudget film from a writer/director/actor that is so full-formed and somehow entirely shot on 16mm. There's a transitional shot coming off a phone call that takes the lead character into the third act that made me lean forward and almost scream YEAH!!! because I loved it so much. Confident it's gonna be the kind of movie people watch with friends in a bedroom that defines their taste the way John Waters did for a lot of people but I hope everybody gets a chance to see this on a big screen and with a crowd.

lillypilgrim5.0

I edited this movie and so, unsurprisingly, I love it like a child, and have never been prouder ❤️BUT beyond that, I feel like if I saw it for the first time at the premiere yesterday, I would be OBSESSED. Annapurna Sriram is a rare gift to us all -- absolutely committed to using filmmaking as an art form. The movie is utterly bespoke, fun, campy, deeply cinematic -- but also wholly genuine and asks so many deep and relevant questions about the way we all survive in our own late stage capitalist Trashtown. I love it. I love that others love it. I hope everyone gets to watch it in a movie theater (it's natural and most joyous habitat) and I cannot WAIT to see what Annapurna does next!

mia lee vicino4.0

visionary collision of sparkle and spunk (both definitions of the word)! unapologetic about tramp-stamping a media landscape hellbent on ensuring that women do not get the opportunity to make bizarro-erotic art. Annapurna’s 16mm-shot directorial debut (!!!) got me nodding viciously in agreement when, during the post-screening vape sesh, one of my girls bestowed upon it one of the hautest possible compliments: “Varda would’ve loved this.” i’m a proud resident of Trashtown, USA!