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Gender and Sexuality

Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.

Alex Heeney / September 15, 2022

Unruly Film Review: women battle patriarchy and eugenics in 1930s Denmark

Alex Heeney reviews Malou Reymann’s feature film debut, Unruly, which had its world premiere at TIFF 22. Set in 1930s Denmark, mostly on Sprøgo island, which housed an institution for “troubled” and “immoral women,” Unruly never uses the term “eugenics,” but that’s very much its subject

Alex Heeney / September 1, 2022

Stonewalling Film Review: Surviving an unwanted pregnancy

In Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s film Stonewalling, China’s two-child policy casts a long shadow on twenty-year-old Lynn who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy — and loses most of her agency along the way.

Alex Heeney / May 27, 2022

Cannes: Marie Kreutzer’s film Corsage finds the Empress in an existential crisis

Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, reframes the story of Empress Elisabeth of Australia (Sissi) as one of a woman trying to live up to impossible beauty standards in a patriarchal world.

Alex Heeney / May 23, 2022

Cannes Review: Céline Devaux’s Everybody Loves Jeanne is a delightful anti-rom-com

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 Semaine de la Critique.

Alex Heeney / April 15, 2022

Mutzenbacher and Man Caves explore men’s views on sex and love

In both Mutzenbacher and Man Caves, women directors interview a slew of men about their thoughts on sex and love.

In a still from Girl Picture, one teenage girl leans on her friend as both look in the mirror. Next to this still is a purple block featuring white text that reads, 'Quick thougts,' above a cartoon drawing of a pen drawing a line on a page.

Orla Smith / January 24, 2022

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.

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