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This was so intense to watch. This was draining. Exhausting. I could not watch this movie 15 years ago and I understand why. I was not equipped (yet) for it. I did not have the patience, the wisdom, the experience. It takes at least one true love and a heart break to fully embrace what the movie has to give.

In the end we fully live when we fully love. Erasing memories of love equals to erasing pieces of life. This life that makes us who we are. Rejecting those memories is denying parts iof ourselves. Through love and heartbreak we learn, we fall and we eventually grow. We get ready for the next relationship. We get ready to do better. We get ready to eventually, maybe, love unconditionally.

Nothing too surprising. This is Woody Allen in Manhattan. "A rainy day in New York" came to me as a rather naive and refreshing way of doing what W Allen does. Gastby and Ashleigh question what they are and what they are becoming. They do that - to my perception - through the eyes of someone of their age. They think but do not overthink. Action immediately follows. They do not get lost in doubts and do not have to deal with an ego bigger than them. They act, they feel, they learn and repeat. They have so much to learn from that one day. I found all three young characters likeable and empowered, and the actors on top of their game (Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning and Selena Gomez). I would have loved to spend that day by their side The rain never bothered me anyways.