Los Perros fearlessly reveals the dilemma for women forced to choose between a desire to do whatever they want, and a desire to be recognised as political …
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Review: A deadline to wed in Rama Burshtein’s The Wedding Plan
Rama Burshtein's The Wedding Plan, her follow-up to Fill the Void, is another thoughtful exploration of women and marriage in Orthodox Jewish culture. …
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That is not what I meant at all: Claire Denis’ Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur)
Opening the Director’s Fortnight this year, Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur) is an often disarming but always exciting new film from the French …
Review: Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is a visual delight
Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is an utterly original film about the threshold between life and death, in which the camera moves through a …
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Review: Close-Knit marks an important milestone for Japanese LGBTQ cinema
Naoko Ogigami's Close-Knit is a charming, if disappointingly conservative, family drama about a girl who finds herself being raised by a transgender woman. …
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Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror
Mary Angela Rowe's review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn't about the horror of female sexuality so …
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