Eosson

海南雞飯 | RICE RHAPSODY (2004) dir. Kenneth Bi Jen runs a Hainan chicken rice restaurant whilst taking care of her three sons. The oldests, Daniel and Harry, are gay, and Jen is determined her youngest, Leo, does not go the same way, going as far as to enlist the help of her friend Kim-Chui, who owns a nearby restaurant and is secretly in love with her. Leo has become Jen’s life, and she is pinning all her hopes of grandchildren on him, so she and Kim-Chui hatch a plan that involves bringing Sabine, a female French exchange student, to stay at Jen’s house. (link in title)

Gallica

The Ugly Stepsister (2025) — dir. Emilie Blichfeldt

Irving Penn, Three Rissani Women with Bread, 1971

Little Children (Todd Field, 2006).

Size: 73x92 cm Medium: oil on canvas

// requested by anonymous

dorothy hall in working girls (dorothy arzner, 1931). her makeup is so beautiful, it makes me think of theda bara or kiki de montparnasse. it feels almost out of date for 1931!

Daria

Cy Twombly, On returning from Tonnicoda, 1973

walking and talking (nicole holofcener, 1996)

by John Everett Millais

Anne Teyssèdre in Rohmer’s A Tale of Springtime