Director Coralie Fargeat and star Matilda Lutz discuss Revenge, the stigma around genre cinema, mixing humour and violence, and the way victims are still held …
Feminist Horror
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches reinvents Quebec horror
Simon Lavoie's gorgeous adaptation of the popular Québécois novel, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches critiques, subverts, and reinvents the Quebec …
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Sisterhood is the saviour in Julia Ducournau’s humanist Raw
In this essay, Orla Smith explores how Raw is as much about the experiences of her sister, Alex (Ella Rumpf), and their relationship — which saves Justine. This …
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Elle and Big Little Lies: Progressive representations of violence against women
Paul Verhoeven's Elle and Jean-Marc Vallée's Big Little Lies share the common goal of unmasking the omnipresence of misogyny via its horrific …
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‘No desire if it’s not forbidden’: Dread, eroticism, and text messaging in Personal Shopper
By using text messaging as a source of terror that morphs into eroticism, Personal Shopper acknowledges and subverts horror traditions. …
Olivier Assayas on Personal Shopper, filming text messages
Olivier Assayas discusses the visual and aural aesthetic of Personal Shopper and how he shot that impressive texting set piece.This is an excerpt of the …
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