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.
Gender and Sexuality
Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.
Film Review: Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish
Charles Burnett’s delightful 1999 screwball comedy The Annihilation of Fish has been restored in 4K and is screening across North America.
The Devil’s Bath is a breathtaking masterwork that will ruin your night and possibly your life
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s harrowing new drama makes their previous chillers, Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, look like episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
Love Lies Bleeding is a slick, cheeky thriller about lesbian codependency
Unlike the harrowingly exquisite Saint Maud, Rose Glass’s second feature film, Love Lies Bleeding, is just as likely to make you giggle as it is to make you gasp.
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.
Film Review: Martha Coolidge’s Not a Pretty Picture
Martha Coolidge excavates her sexual assault in her creative nonfiction film Not a Pretty Picture, recently restored in 4K by Janus Films.