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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its devastatingly intimate portrait of separation shares Blue Valentine’s emotional nakedness, compassionate attention to both partners, and ability to make private arguments feel painfully immediate.
02
Why this pick
Like Blue Valentine, it observes romantic longing after the rush of falling in love has faded, using naturalistic performances and small domestic moments rather than easy judgments.
03
Why this pick
Its loose, close-up filmmaking and largely improvised-feeling performances capture the fragile tenderness and accumulating strain of a relationship across time.
04
Why this pick
A quieter but equally piercing relationship drama, built from restrained performances and the unsettling way a long-buried emotional truth can alter everyday intimacy.
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Why this pick
Its non-linear movement through a couple’s love and loss echoes Blue Valentine’s emotional structure, pairing romantic warmth with an unvarnished sense of grief.
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01 / THE STORY
Dean is a young hopeless romantic high school dropping out, working for a moving company in Brooklyn. Cindy is an aspiring doctor studying pre-med, living with her constantly fighting parents and caring for her grandmother in Pennsylvania. She is also dating a fellow student named Bobby. During intercourse one day, Bobby doesn't use protection causing an angered Cindy to break up with him. Dean and Cindy meet at her grandmother's nursing home while Dean is delivering a new resident's furniture. He gives her his number but she never calls. They coincidentally meet again on a bus and begin dating shortly afterwards. The two fall deeply in love and soon after, a jealous Bobby finds out and beats Dean up.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dean Pereira
Cindy Heller
Frances "Frankie" Pereira
Jerry
Bobby
Marshall
Gramma
Dr. Feinberg
