ILKLEY FILM SOCIETY 2018-2019
Feedback & Comments on Films
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Feedback
The Post
Scores
Quality of Film
(Average (BFFS
Score) Score)
1 2 3 4 5
1 1 10 26 30 4.22 81%
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Personal Satisfaction
(Average (BFFS
Score) Score)
1 2 3 4 5
1 6 5 28 28 4.12 78%
Comments
5 5 My first visit - really enjoyed the film; thank you
5 5 Spielberg tells a great story and it’s a lot more exciting than today's Freedom of Information requests.
Watch it - justice is at stake!
5 5 Great start to the season!
4 4 Life before iPhones
The Shepherd
Scores
Quality of Film
(Average (BFFS
Score) Score)
1 2 3 4 5
0 8 18 37 14 3.74 69%
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Personal Satisfaction
(Average (BFFS
Score) Score)
1 2 3 4 5
1 8 11 37 20 3.87 72%
5 4 Gloriously shot
4 5 If there were low numbers for The Post most of us had seen it already
4 5 Very tense and moving. Do not stab a shepherd's dog
4 4 Reminded me of Three Billboards which you are showing later in the season, except without the humour ! Still very poignant
4 4 Muy bueno, el perro Pillo y el pastor Anselmo
4 4 I couldn't watch the bad bit with the knife & dog. So sad – sorry it had to happen like that
4 3 Long live the anti-hero
4 2 Riveting – gripping awaiting the death of the dog Pillo. What humans will do for money – I hate them !
3 3 Please give warning about hand-held camera – it makes me seasick
2 3 Grim
2 2 Too much tension. Boring flat scenery
No score Truly awful film
Comments
Get Out
Scores
Quality of Film
(Average (BFFS
Score) Score)
1 2 3 4 5
6 9 16 18 13 3.37 59%
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Personal Satisfaction
(Average (BFFS
Score) Score)
1 2 3 4 5
16 12 10 10 14 2.90 48%
Comments
5 5 One of the most rewarding American films of recent years
4 5 Gripping & brilliant
4 4 Wish somebody would teach the actors to open their mouths when they speak !! Awful diction
3 3 A blood bath better than Brexit
3 2 American psychobabble. Never tap a teacup 3 times. Surely there is a better film somewhere
1 4 Very poor diction. Cold have done with subtitles
3 1 Mildly discomforting but 5 stars for mumbling. Should have been filmed in the dark as well. Utter bunkum
2 2 The most horrific film I've ever seen
1 1 An insult to the intelligence
1 1 Your write-ups are “slightly” misleading !
Toni Erdmann
Scores
Quality of Film
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
4 4 14 27 16 3.72 68%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
5 5 15 14 26 3.78 70%
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Comments
5 5 Wonderful 'real' take on life and parent and child relationships. Warm.
5 5 Haven't laughed so much in ages
5 5 Amazing - loved it!
5 5 Brilliant, complex film on so many levels. Saw more pathos this 2nd time round. Still wonderful humour.
5 5 I have spent two hours in someone else's life. Worked on so many levels.
4 5 Poignant and witty and with values. How did they think this up?
4 5 Carpe diem!
4 5 Certainly made me think about racing through life too fast.
4 4 ZANY, ZANY, ZANY. 2 1/2 hours disappeared, somehow amusingly but I cannot think of anything to say whether positive or negative.
4 4 Lots of fun
3 3 Slow burn, contemplative, sometimes manic, and very modern comedy of manners.
2 2 Great opening 5 minutes, hard to sustain.
1 1 Humour is very personal, and a 1970's sensibility is very dated.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Scores
Quality of Film
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 1 5 25 29 4.31 83%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 2 7 22 29 4.25 81%
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Comments
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5 5 Frances McDoramnd kicks ass!
5 5 A sombre film with black humour, best seen twice
5 5 Although very sad at times and very different it was first class
5 5 Complicit father!
5 5 Tom Selleck lives again in the body of Peter Dinklage!
5 4 Powerful, disturbing. Excellent female lead. Black black humour. Just my kind of thing!
4 5 Very entertaining
4 3 Violence, the American way
A Fantastic Woman
Scores
Quality of Film
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
0 3 24 15 9 3.71 68%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
4 5 24 24 15 3.57 64%
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Comments
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4 3 Please ask people not to "whisper" during the film! A bit slow maybe but not deserving that!
4 3 A shame to sit next to people who didn't like it and completely ruined the carefully built tension. But a sensitive film
2 1 Highlight was the stage whisper from the audience: "it goes on a bit doesn't it?"
Journey's End
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
2 25 38 4.556 89%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
5 25 35 4.46 87%
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Comments
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5 5 Excellent. Very moving.
4 4 Dialogue very indistinct at times, especially at the start of the film
4 4 Realistic portrayal of utter futility
4 4 What can we add?
Dark River
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
7 20 41 13 3.74 69%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
3 10 39 13 16 3.36 59%
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Comments
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4 4 Could have done with subtitles
4 4 Barked and broken dialogie and unhinged violence. The characteristics of every Yorkshire inhabitant
4 4 The struggle to forge a future amid the wreckage of the past
4 3 The landscape was magnificent and the dog / sheep were great
4 2 Not a lot of sunshine here was there? I'm going home for a very large whisky
3 3 Grim, very grim!
3 3 countryside magnificent. The rest was sort of OK but I got fed up with it
3 1 Worst film I've ever seen (when I wasn't closing my eyes to shut it out). 1 good thing - the scenery!
2 1 Weird Awful
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The Death of Stalin
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
2 7 12 39 14 3.76 69%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
5 9 12 31 17 3.62 66%
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Comments
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4 4 Black humour ! Shouldn't be fun – but it was. Great fun
4 4 It felt a bit wrong but I liked it.
3 3 A disturbing tragi-comedy. Is death funny ?
2 2 All a bit wrong !
2 1 Worst film I ever saw (when my eyes weren't closed)
1 1 Morally/politically contrived at best; irresponsible at worst.
1 1 Terrible in every way
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Hotel Salvation
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 2 12 21 15 3.92 73%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
2 4 7 22 16 3.90 73%
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Comments
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5 5 Beautiful cinematography - gorgeous. Such restrained talented acting
4 4 Calm, reflective, insightfully amusing
4 4 Really enjoyed it
4 3 Slow, rich, very affecting final section
3 3 Interesting, but ???? long winded. Half as long - twice as good.
2 2 A fantastic test of an audience’s ability to stay awake. I failed, failed and failed. Lucky I did not snore.
2 1 Utterly dull and boring. Worst film of 2018
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
4 6 17 23 4.18 80%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 5 8 12 24 4.06 77%
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Comments
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5 5 Sad, but brilliantly executed - and the title is very apt.
5 5 Great unexpected gem of a film. All the characters were both passionate and moving in the right measure! Full marks from me.
5 1 No doubt well acted and produced. But who at the general age if this audience has not lost someone to cancer. Who wants to relive it. A thoroughly miserable and depressing 2 hours.
3 3 Again too long. Annette Bening excellent. Liverpool looked ok.
2 2 Boring!
In Between
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
5 18 28 18 3.86 71%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 6 14 21 25 3.94 74%
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Comments
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5 5 Brave provocative powerful film
5 5 Powerful portrait of powerful women being themselves
4 5 Best soundtrack of the year! Excellent movie
4 4 It wa stages but I really enjoyed it
3 3 Rather noisy kissing! Poor things. What a culture!
2 2 Hope they hurry up and make a sequel!!!
Darkest Hour
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 3 7 31 22 4.09 77%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
3 2 10 22 27 4.06 77%
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Comments
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5 5 Stirring performances and a strong emotional impact
4 5 Loved it!
4 4 The future of Britain and Brexit? Hire a Tube for all MPs from St James's Park to Westminster.
2 1 Ashamed to say I found it rather tedious.
Custody
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
2 11 25 32 3.93 73%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
3 7 27 17 17 3.54 63%
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Comments
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5 5 Excellent, but emotionally draining
5 5 Exhausting!
5 5 Off with their goolies!
5 5 Pretty harrowing, better than 5!
4 4 What a beast - really disappointed I didn't see him get beaten up and thrashed to within an inch of his life
4 3 Hard to watch as it was so harshly realistic! Such is the hidden world of domestic violence which many innocent people inhabit. Scary.
4 3 Frighteningly realistic
4 3 Domestics!! French domestics!!!
3 2 Harrowing in the extreme. Boy actor deserves an award.
Don't know what I thought of it
Les Pararpluies de Cherbourg
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 4 12 25 19 3.93 73%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
3 7 27 17 17 3.54 63%
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Comments
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5 5 Delightful, loved the way it was sung
5 5 Simply perfect
4 4.5 Charmant! Wonderful to see it again after all these years! A one-off film!
4 4 Very unusual, but very sweet. I enjoyed it.
4 3 Très unique et très émouvant.
4 3 Quirky et un petit peu étrange! Maids c'était la periode je pense. A bit dated but the gimmick of singing constantly got on my nerves!
2 1 I knew I should have sat by the door!
Lady Bird
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
0 5 17 32 13 3.79 70%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
0 7 14 28 18 3.85 71%
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Comments
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5 4 Wonderful acting – mother & daughter. A little too strung out (i.e. long)
4 4 Very funny especially for a teenage girl to watch. I didn't find the ending very satisfying
4 4 Sometimes you gotta travel a long way to find yourself
3 2 Poor sound by many of the cast
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
11 26 24 6 3.37 59%
Aquarius
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Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
0 6 12 9 12 3.69 67%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
4 6 13 6 10 3.31 58%
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Comments
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5 4 Rather wonderful. Frustrated that it ended as it did. What happened next?
4 2 When will you be screening part 2?
3 4 Potentially fantastic but annoyingly inconclusive
2 2 Colourful but boring
2 1 Not really enough for a fairly poor one hour TV drama, but certainly not for 146 minutes of slow-moving boredom
Wind River
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
3 7 15 25 15 3.65 66%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
8 8 15 18 16 3.40 68%
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Comments
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5 5 A proper film
5 5 Could have done with subtitles in place. Very powerful film
5 5 Snow justice
5 4 Marvellous film but 1. sound at front was a little too loud 2. dialogue often hard to discern
5 3 Seriously violent! I'm sure the script was good – sadly I could only make out about 1 word in 10
4 4 Great film, pity about the mumbling. Foley sounds overdone
4 3 Dialogue was very difficult to hear. Rather violent for me
4 3 Too loud !!
2 5 Poor soundtrack – too loud for hall ?
3 4 Sound was a bit muffled but could still get the gist
4 2 Sound volume far too loud
3 3 Harrowing
4 2 Speech difficult to follow, distressing
3 2 Dreadful diction. I got 10% of the words. Could we possibly experiment with subtitles for US films
3 1 Worst film I've ever seen. Too much violence I hate
1 1 Didn't understand a single word. Subtitles please
Difficult to rate as 10% max of dialogue comprehensible
Graduation
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 5 25 21 14 3.64 66%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
2 10 19 22 13 3.52 63%
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Comments
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4 4 Easier to admire than like
After Love
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 3 16 25 6 3.63 66%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
3 7 16 16 9 3.41 60%
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Comments
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4 3 Hard to watch, especially thinking about effect on the children. Very realistic, a milder version of the other film with a similar theme, Custody.
4 3 Dissection of disintegrating relationship
3 1 A long 90 minutes!
You Were Never Really Here
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
16 9 10 12 11 2.88 47%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
23 13 5 9 8 2.41 35%
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Comments
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4 4 A cinematic assault on the senses
4 4 Loved the first half, beautifully shot with fantastic cinematography. Second half got a bit 'Daily Mail'?
4 3 Brutal, bloody and slightly bemusing
4 3 Brilliant filming, very violent!
4 2 Slow moving. Do I really want to be inside his head?
3 2 No subtitles on English language films!
3 1 Good acting, but yuk!
1 1 Horrible film. Waste of time coming. Difficult to understand. Pretentious violent rubbish.
1 1 Deeply tedious.
Let the Sunshine in
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
12 21 26 7 4 2.57 39%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
29 23 12 4 2 1.96 24%
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Comments
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4 4 Everyone went out smiling
4 3 Sent me to sleep
4 2 Very strange and a lot of talking
3 2 Sooooo French !
3 1 Quelle claptrap
2 2 Not so much a rom-com as a sexual “comedie de moeurs”
2 1 Binoche, Binoche and Binoche and bugger all else
1 1 Made me want to leave the EEC
1 1 At best a stereotype of female vulnerability depicted through the narrative of failed relationships, or am I missing something ? I doubt a less attractive female actress (sic) could have got away with that role
In The Fade
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
1 1 5 28 17 4.13 78%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
2 5 28 17 4.12 78%
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Comments
5 5 Some unusual and very effective filming techniques
5 5 Excellent lead actress and surprise ending
4 5 Very good, and especially Diane Kruger
4 4 At times unbearably sad
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God's Own Country
Scores
Quality of Film
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1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
3 1 8 27 14 3.91 73%
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Scores
Personal Satisfaction
1 2 3 4 5 (Av. Score) (BFFS Score)
6 4 11 22 10 3.49 65.9%
Comments
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4 5 Rough & beautiful, sensitive & sensual
1 1 The most miserable film I've ever seen
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