…on characters suffering from a drug addiction that is both the effect of and contributing to their state of near poverty. These characters survive more than they live, and in…
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Review: I, Daniel Blake is a declaration of personhood
…toolbox. [clickToTweet tweet=”The movie depicts Dan as a lifelong caretaker whom the state fails to care for in return.” quote=”The movie depicts Dan as a lifelong caretaker whom the state…
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane gives form to society’s systemic sexism
…the Highland Creek staff, Sawyer only appears more crazy when she cries out his real name. Calmly, he refutes her, reasserting that her mental state is causing her to lose…
Review: A deadline to wed in Rama Burshtein’s The Wedding Plan
…effectively blocking out the surroundings to focus the camera almost entirely on Michal’s face, her confusion, her exasperation, and her hope. Is this an appropriate state in which to be…
LFF’s Official Competition highlights emerging trends among young auteurs
Ben Flanagan muses on LFF 2019’s competition selection and to what extent it represents the current state of cinema, particularly British and genre cinema. Read more LFF 2019 coverage here….
Sophie Deraspe on her modern adaptation of Antigone
…his body is thrown to the vultures because he’s an enemy of the state. In Antigone, what she does is say, the two of them are my brothers, so good…