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RETURN TO SEOUL — Davy Chou Interview

March 10, 2023 By Leave a Comment

RETURN TO SEOUL — Davy Chou Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Davy Chou based his film, RETURN TO SEOUL, on the real-life experiences of his friend, Korean-born Laure Badulfe. She was adopted as an infant by a French couple and, as an adult, returned to the land of her birth in order to meet her birth parents. Chou used… Read More »

Tagged With: adoption, Cambodia, closure, Khmer Rouge, Korea, language, patriarchy, Perspective, psychic wound

NANNY — Nikyatu Jusu and Anna Diop Interview

December 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

NANNY —  Nikyatu Jusu and Anna Diop Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Led by a stunning performance by Anna Diop in the title role of Aisha, an undocumented immigrant working to bring her young son over from Senegal, NANNY is a powerful yet subtle film that uses horror as a way of addressing so much more, in this case, the… Read More »

Tagged With: accent, angry black woman syndrome, injustice, magic, mythology, Nietzsche, patriarchy, racism, rage, reclaiming power, Sartre, Sundance

WOMEN TALKING

December 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

WOMEN TALKING

WOMEN TALKING is a compassionate, reasoned film about a very ugly subject that tells its compelling story within strict confinements. The action takes place among an Amish-like sect in 2010 as its women take on issues of the patriarchy with a fiercely clear eye and the safe remove of an almost metaphorical setting. Within this… Read More »

Tagged With: chattel, forgiveness, patriarchy, rape, rebellion, repression, revolt

DON’T WORRY DARLING

September 25, 2022 By Leave a Comment

DON’T WORRY DARLING

DON’T WORRY DARLING is not the most coherent of feminist manifestos, but it is an ambitious one, exploring as it does several variants of toxic masculinity, some unexpected, but no less pernicious for the surprise factor. Using a devoted couple, Alice (Florence Pugh) and Jack (Harry Styles) as the focal point of gender dynamics, the… Read More »

Tagged With: conformity, cult of personality, mid-century, patriarchy, toxic masculinity, unreality

NOTHING COMPARES

September 21, 2022 By 1 Comment

NOTHING COMPARES

It is high time for a re-appraisal of Sinéad O’Connor. Now best remembered with a tinge of distaste for tearing up a picture of the Pope on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992, the singer is the focus of Kathryn Ferguson’s documentary, NOTHING COMPARES. Centering on O’Connor’s precipitous rise to stardom at barely 21 to the… Read More »

Tagged With: Catholic Church, child abuse, controversy, Ireland, misogyny, music industry, patriarchy, Prince, Saturday Night Live

MEDUSA

August 23, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MEDUSA

Anita Rocha da Silveira’s MEDUSA is a savage satire of self-enforced female repression. Set in an unnamed country that could be the filmmaker’s native Brazil, or any country with a vocal and fervent minority currently vying to bring Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale to life, it is a lushly metaphorical take on the kind of right-wing… Read More »

Tagged With: Christian speed-dating, patriarchy, repression, selfies for the glory of god, toxic masculinity

HAPPENING — Audrey Diwan and Anamaria Vartolomei Interview

May 17, 2022 By Leave a Comment

HAPPENING — Audrey Diwan and Anamaria Vartolomei Interview

When I spoke with director/co-writer Audrey Diwan and star Anamaria Vartolomei about THE HAPPENING (L’événement ) via Zoom on April 23, 2022, the infamous Supreme Court leak about The Brethren’s intentions about Roe V. Wade hadn’t yet happened. Still a film about a single woman seeking an illegal abortion in 1963 France still had great… Read More »

Tagged With: and 1963, anger, Annie Ernaux, France, illegal abortion, Laurent Tangy, patriarchy, repression, smiling

I BLAME SOCIETY

January 11, 2021 By Leave a Comment

I BLAME SOCIETY

I’m not giving anything away to tell you the punch line in Gillian Wallace Horvat’s I BLAME SOCIETY. It’s a perfectly timed, and even more perfectly delivered explanation about the film her character made in the course of this vicious, and viciously funny satire: I’m sorry it didn’t meet your expectations, I didn’t make it… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, blonde, likeable female lead, patriarchy, pointed social commentary, satire, serial killer, strong female lead

ANTEBELLUM

December 16, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ANTEBELLUM

Of the many neat twists in ANTEBELLUM, the most disturbing of all is the one that concerns the state of race relations in the modern day, and how slavery still informs it. By contrasting the subtle, and not so subtle, micro-aggressions forced upon people of color in the present with the brutality of slavery as… Read More »

Tagged With: microaggression, patriarchy, racism, slavery, torture

Bel Powley and Marielle Heller Share THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

August 17, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Bel Powley and Marielle Heller Share THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

When I spoke with Bel Powely and Marielle Heller on August 3, 2015,  the subject was, of course, sex. Their film, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, addresses that issues from the first scene, wherein the heroine, 15-year-old Minnie Goetz, proudly tells the audience that she’s just had sex and it was >amazing<. I started… Read More »

Tagged With: 1976, AMERICAN PIE, Bel Powley, Catcher in the Rye, DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, female sexuality, graphic novel, hormones, Marielle Heller, Minnie Goetz, patriarchy, Patty Hearst, personal responsibility, Phoebe Gloeckner, ratings system, San Francisco, Stockholm Syndrome, Superbad, teen sexuality, women's movement

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