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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Lost and Delirious, it treats a forbidden bond between women with romantic intensity and painful social pressure, while giving its heroines more adult agency and a richly period-specific atmosphere.
02
Why this pick
This shares the raw adolescent longing and outsider perspective of Lost and Delirious, following two girls whose connection challenges the suffocating expectations of their small-town school world.
03
Why this pick
Its queer teenage protagonist faces institutional control and grief with quiet resilience. It echoes the boarding-school confinement and emotional stakes of Lost and Delirious in a more restrained, dryly observant register.
04
Why this pick
This foundational boarding-school romance shares the enclosed female world, yearning, and collision between private feeling and institutional authority that make Lost and Delirious so bruising.
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Why this pick
For the shy observer's viewpoint and tender queer longing, this offers a gentler counterpart to Lost and Delirious: emotionally articulate, school-set, and deeply attentive to friendship's complicated edges.
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01 / THE STORY
Mary is a new student at the all girls' boarding school, and dorms with Paulie and Victoria. In an effort to get the shy Mary to break out of her shell, Paulie and Tori involve her in their activities, such as running in the mornings. When they hear that Mary's mother has died, Paulie nicknames her "Mary Brave."
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Pauline 'Paulie' Oster
Tori Moller
Mary 'Mouse' Bedford
Eleanor Bannet
Joe Menzies
Allison Moller
Kara
Jake Hollander
