Review of Please Baby Please (2022) by Erinkat93 — 22 Apr 2023

I’m writing this review after my 5th (maybe even 6th) viewing of this movie. I absolutely adore this movie. It is so thoroughly, delightfully queer in every sense of the word. It so perfectly blends the cinematic influences it's drawing from (obviously Anger and Fassbinder, but also cult camp classics like "Absolutely Beginners" and "Crimes of Passion") while also being utterly singular.

Andre Riseborough has been getting a lot of the attention for this movie, and she’s great in it, but Harry Melling is absolutely killing it in this film. He so inhabits Arthur’s internal struggles with his masculinity and sexuality in a way that feels startlingly authentic.

The final dance sequence is my favorite moment from a movie in the past few years. Absolute queer joy personified.