Céline Devaux's feature debut, Everybody Loves Jeanne, is wild, hilarious, sweet, and chaotic: a delightful anti-rom-com. It screened in the Cannes sidebar …
Gender and Sexuality
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Mutzenbacher and Man Caves explore men’s views on sex and love
In both Mutzenbacher and Man Cave — both documentary films which screened at Visions du Réel — women directors interview a slew of men about their thoughts on …
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Quick thoughts from Sundance: Girl Picture is a World Dramatic highlight
Alli Haapasalo's Girl Picture is a delightful Finnish coming-of-ager which takes teenage girls, their sexuality, and their trauma seriously. Read all our …
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Fresh Review: A blunt, entertaining horror film about dating
An excellent Daisy Edgar-Jones stars in Fresh, a horror film about a woman plunged into a terrifying situation after dating a charming older stranger. Read …
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Happening looks at the culture of shame around abortion
Audrey Diwan's Happening follows a young woman's journey in the 1960s to even find a backstreet abortionist amidst a culture of shame and silence. After …
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The Lost Daughter is a skillful adaptation by Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut skillfully adapts Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter, the story of a middle-aged woman who shouldn't have had kids and is …
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