Here's a few more tidbits that may or may not be accurate:

Kingpouge Laika: A Photobook by Hiromi Saimon

Kingpouge Laika is a photobook by Hiromi Saimon, a Japanese photographer known for his portraits of young girls. The book features 78 photos of Laika, a 12-year-old model who posed for Saimon ...

Sure, I'll take a shot. I used tineye to reverse image search, it showed it to be a Japanese photobook. I don't read Japanese so I put the image into an image translator and this is what I found:

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The top, top left seems to say "beautiful girl fairy tale photo collection ...

Yeah, I agree.. this is also definitely one of my favs

(Also, this movie is streaming for Free on SBS if you have an Australian IP - https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/aftersun/2387024451535)

Makes me want to rewatch this to be honest


It's on sale, I bought it digital last night for 6 usd ...

Just wanted to say this is, easily, the best movie I watched this year. It really stuck with me, the kind of movie I was watching essays the second it ended. I almost wish it didn't feel so devastating so I could watch it more often. And I guess this was the director's debut.

Definitely not for ...

Lately, one of my favorite types of film feature young girlhood in 1800s or early 1900s. Examples: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, An American Girl Holiday, Annie, both Madicken films/series, Iris - 2011, Něco z Alenky, Pollyanna 2003.

I've recently watched and enjoyed both The Secret of ...

I think it's good to remember there's a variety of reasons people post here and to not make assumptions about others. Some of my favorite movies posted here have 0 moments of nudity/sexuality and the movies I have the least interest in are typically the ones with heavy sexual themes.

I'm here for ...

Thank you so much, Night457 and SATA6Gbs. You guys are saviors.

I really appreciate that they are dedicated to accuracy to the books. A writer doesn't add these small little details just for the hell of, they are always trying to convey some feeling/emotion. I get that when you adapt something you ...

Yes I agree the parts you mention are good, and the dance is good in the sense that I feel like madicken has important character growth in understanding the complexity and nuance of love.

Obviously I could be reading into things somewhat these are just thoughts that have crossed my mind.

I dont ...

Episode 8 is one of my all-time favorite shows: Mia was exactly the kind of unholy terror that made my childhood miserable, but since then I can reflect and see things from her point of view. She is now one of my favorite Astrid Lindgren characters, because she is a fighter. Mia tries to buy ...

I think...

Spoiler: Holger and Elvie from Onder de Blote Hemel ( viewtopic.php?t=15287&hilit=Onder ) should bond over their mutual traumas. Only small issue is if these stories happened canonically in their release years Holger would be around 27 and Elvie 12.