Alex Heeney reviews Alice Douard’s debut feature Love Letters, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a queer woman in 2014 whose partner is pregnant with their child, and the paperwork involved with becoming her daughter’s legal parent.
Directed by Women
Explore films by directors who identify as women.
Yuni is a smart Indonesian coming-of-age story
In Kamila Andini’s Yuni, teenage Yuni tries to figure out who she is amidst growing patriarchal pressures.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Katalin Moldovai’s Without Air
In Katalin Moldovai’s feature debut, Without Air, a beloved literature teacher stands to lose her job after she recommends Agnieszka Holland’s gay romance Total Eclipse (1995) to her class.
Falcon Lake explores the threshold between childhood and adolescence
Charlotte Lebon’s feature debut is a sensitive look at a pair of teenagers caught between childhood and adulthood, friendship and romance.
Quick Thoughts: Alice Winocour’s film Paris Memories (Revoir Paris)
With her new film Paris Memories (Revoir Paris), Alice Winocour continues her exploration of traumatised bodies and PTSD that has defined all of her films to date.
Quick Thoughts Film Review: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg’s film The Eternal Daughter is an unexpected sequel to her Souvenir duology: a ghost story exploring the creative process and a mother-daughter relationship.