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Gillie Collins talked to director Rosemary Myers about adapting her Windmill theatre play Girl Asleep for the film. Collins also explores the many exaggerated, theatrical elements that define the film.
[Read more…] about From stage to screen: Director Rosemary Myers on her new film Girl Asleep
Gillie Collins talks to Jenni Olson about her 16mm film essay, The Royal Road, a meandering story about unrequited love told through the linear progression of California’s El Camino road.
[Read more…] about Writer-Director Jenni Olson on her film essay, The Royal RoadWriter-Director-Actress Julie Delpy discusses her consummately entertaining new movie, Lolo, which is chock full of the same joie de vivre Delpy channels in real life. Read more interviews with female directors here.
[Read more…] about Julie Delpy talks colour and comedy in LoloCésar Best Picture Winner Fatima meditates on language barriers and what it takes to become French. Gillie Collins reviews the film at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema.
[Read more…] about Fatima is a tender look at making a home in a new land
Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s directorial debut, charts five sisters’ resistance, as they both grow into and reject a narrow notion of womanhood. But Ergüven privileges perspectives that a Western audience can understand and approve of, making the story too familiar and incomplete.
[Read more…] about The politics of sisterhood in MustangIn Fish Tank, physical boundaries stand for social boundaries — the constraints imposed by gender and class and the walls we build for self-protection. Read our review of Arnold’s American Honey here.
[Read more…] about Landscape and limbo in Fish Tank