Wildly Thematically Different Movie Double Feature Adventures: The Girl with the Needle & Tampopo (1985)

It's hard to find common themes in these two. Does breastfeeding count as a theme?

The Girl with the Needle

If you like movies that start with a woman getting evicted and forced to live in filth because her husband disappeared during World War One, and then things get worse, this is the movie for you. Beautifully shot, well performed, compellingly told, and I never need to see it again. I came out of the theater so down that I decided to watch a lighter film to clear my head.

And that’s how I ended up seeing…

Tampopo (1985)

A cowboy trucker helps a woman form a crack team to make the perfect ramen restaurant, with a storytelling method that’s like a slightly more structured Dazed and Confused? Count me in!

Bonus Graphic!

I can only use one graphic for the “featured image,” so here’s the one I made for The Girl with the Needle.

Portrait of Koraline in The Girl with the Needle, looking weary. She is black and blue, and the background is a halftone gray.
Completely unrelated to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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