I always make up my own mind first about a film, sometimes write it down, only then check reviews on letterboxd. Anyway, I stand by my words:

Seeing Jenna Ortega on the big screen is such an experience... Her acting talent and the intricate script make for an exhilarating watch and that I will have to rewatch it multiple times when it hopefully comes out on blu-ray or 4k to untangle the different strands.

The story of a young girl and an old man is a bit of a trope. I love the film "Noce Blanche" (also a brilliant student and a teacher, though there she's 15, here 18) and both there and here the story is treated better, more real, with a different slant on it. Where in "Noce Blanche" it initially starts off showing her as the predator (the classic take), then questions that, here we dive deep into their psyches and the why while at the same time not knowing what really happened (the problem with "Noce Blanche" is that we see way too much of what happens, not here). The shot of the empty chair was in both films, maybe not coincidentally.

The chemistry between the two main actors is amazing. Not only in the traditional sense, but also how the tension between the characters changes throughout the film and the two actors are completely in sync with each about it. So much is also hinted at that may have happened between the characters that we didn't see, I mean that both of them show up wearing sunglasses next morning after sharing a moment at a poetry night suggests the night lasted longer than we knew...

Also a couple of long emotional scenes without cuts, just focusing on the actors, I like that.

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