It overthrew my childhood favorite : Donnie Darko and I’m also a huge fan of urban fantasy or regular people in extraordinary situations type of storytelling :)

My third fave is Black Orpheus followed by Young Girls of Rochefort, All That Jazz, and My Neighbor Totoro. Haha

It became my favorite film of all time. I saw my mother in it. I saw my sister in it. I saw myself in it. First generation from immigrant born single mother and we’ve all worked our asses off, the film scratched a desperate itch in me and it had my type of humor and philosophy that keeps me going. There’s sooo much more i can say about it, like if I was still in college, I’d probably would’ve written a 15 page essay on the thing.

Edit - when I watched it my mom who is now 50 and has led a bonkers life spanning countries and jobs and languages and she’s not considered “legal” in this country and she saw the film and how it depicted Evelyn and her had. She said she wished she could have had that moment with her father but due to distance, laws, and time… she never got a chance to. It was a story we had never seen on the big screen like this.