La Chimera (2023)
Perhaps it's because I'm at the chrysalis stage of my second coming of age (midlife crisis), I'm often thinking about grief. Life and death are a given. I think maybe we human beings are lucky to live one life of many lives, and of little deaths before the final breath. Josh O'Connor is brilliant in this, as a rumpled tomb-raiding archaeologist looking for the door to the other side where his lost love lives.
Rejection - Tony Tulathimutte
Savagely funny, often gut-twisting collection of linked stories about incels, strivers, the chronically online deformed by not being wanted.
Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
a portrait of an expat couple, composed of the perfect insta-grid life, but what makes a place a home? as transplant myself, it's made me take a look at my own life, living as both an immigrant and an expat.
In the Mood for Love (2000)
a forever favourite
