Mehr Gill
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Mehr Gill
@mehrgill.bsky.social
Saw a great Iranian film recently and wrote about it for Week #19 of What I Saw Last Week.

It is easily one of those movies that stays with you long after you're done watching it. Something close to Charlotte Wells' "Aftersun".

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Week #19: My Favorite Cake is one of the best films I've seen this year
My Favourite Cake directed by Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha, is about a 70-year-old retired nurse Mahin (Lili Farhadpour), who’s been a widow for about 30 years and lives in a lovely house in T...
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September 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Promoting my sister's photographs to my 6 fOlLoWeRszsz
July 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"Not too long ago there were sound arguments against Europe adopting air conditioning en masse, but the climate has changed."

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Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning
In a rapidly warming world, a former extravagance is becoming a necessity
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July 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will be Blood" for Week #17 of What I Saw Last Week.

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Week #17: There Will be Blood is a character study of a complex oilman
I recently watched Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood (2007), a film that demands commitment and a bit of patience.
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July 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Wrote about “The Friend” starring Bing the Harlequin Great Dane, Naomi Watts and Bill Murray.

The film is an ideal New York City movie to watch on a rainy afternoon especially when you want to feed your melancholy.

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Week #16: The Friend is a potential tearjerker for dog lovers
“How do you explain death to a dog?”, is one of many questions that The Friend - an adaptation of the namesake 2018 novel by Sigrid Nunez - asks.
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June 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"Supermen of Malegaon" is a fantastic documentary about how a group of friends make films in perhaps what is the least likely of places in the world to do so-Malegaon.

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Supermen of Malegaon | Documentary film
YouTube video by The fly on the wall
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April 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Mustering the strength to keep my Substack going. Here's what I wrote for Week #14 of "What I Saw Last Week", my thoughts on the film "A Real Pain". Mental health issues with a side of Holocaust platitudes.

It was a decent watch.

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Week #14: A Real Pain is not a Holocaust film
Every year, there are a couple of Holocaust-related movies that create quite the buzz.
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March 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
For Week #11 of "What I Saw Last Week", I shortlisted six films that stood out to me, out of the 89 I watched this year.

My picks include Anatomy of a Fall, Perfect Days, The Teachers' Lounge, Club Zero, Laapata Ladies and Thelma.

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Week #11: My year in movies
It was a good one...
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December 24, 2024 at 4:46 AM