Honeyjoon

honeyjoon? should have been called funnyjoon. because i laughed. and smiled. but also sadjoon because i felt the waves of grief. but then i felt warmth again through the sad parts so more like comfortingjoon. perhaps even fullrangeofemotionsjoon. it’s the fulljoon…

Ali

My heart is extraordinarily full after seeing Honeyjoon, a meditation on grief that is tranquil in its entirety, hilarious to the point that I was in tears and falling out of my chair, and places you into a pool of overwhelming and at times, unspoken loss. And as a sucker…

Movie Good or Movie Bad?

“Do you think we can ever truly be happy? Or is it just an illusion?” “I think it comes in waves—in the little moments, but it’s not forever. Even more good reason to ride the wave when it comes, even if it will go. Because it will go.”

Lexi Amoriello

Sensual, silly, and messy. Few truer summations of life at its best. Loved this.

Brandon Streussnig

So Honeyjoon was made with a million dollar budget as a part of the AT&T Untold Stories Pitch Program and with that, they shot the film on location in the Azores?! Damn. I will say Honeyjoon overstayed its welcome a few too many times for my liking. But narratively, I do…

=★= 𝕬𝖇𝖗𝖆𝖍𝖆𝖒 =★=

I love every ounce of this movie, I am so glad more people get to see it this weekend!!!!

Movie Good or Movie Bad?

Absolutely nails the immigrant mother trait of sharing their life story and trauma onto a stranger within minutes of meeting them, and the immigrant daughter trait of reminding them profusely not to do that

Ema Sasic

Spotlights the conflicted mother and daughter relationship handling grief on the one-year anniversary of the death of Lela’s husband/June’s father. The film’s charm comes from watching how they clash but in a sweet and surprisingly funny way. They are, of course, more alike…

mariomovieboy

“Then there’s a different kind of sensuality in being in your body in grief, of crying or feeling it in your body, and feeling the ache in your heart. Everyone alive, we have one thing in common. We all have a body. There’s something about grounding us in our senses, which…

Brandon Streussnig