Selena Film Notes
A compact home for long-form film reviews, Vimeo-hosted shorts, and visual essays. I write about cinema with an editorial eye and a personal voice.
Latest reviews
Yi Yi
"Since movies were invented, we have lived three times as long."
Wendy and Lucy
*Wendy and Lucy* is seventy-six minutes long, and it broke me in half.
The Worst Person in the World
Are we living in the worst of eras? This is the question that haunts me as I watch Joachim Trier's *The Worst Person in the World*, a film that captures the specific anxieties and contradictions of being young in the...
The Turin Horse
I watched *The Turin Horse* and felt like I'd been buried alive.
The Seventh Seal
I was nineteen when I first watched *The Seventh Seal*, and I thought I was so deep for understanding it. I wrote a pretentious essay about existentialism and the death of God and the search for meaning in a meaningle...
The Mastermind
This might be the quietest, clumsiest "heist film" I have ever seen. The title is a massive irony—there is no "mastermind" here, only a man trapped by life, shivering in the chill of 1970. Kelly Reichardt's *The Maste...