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Alex Heeney / May 12, 2021

Visions du Réel Review: Captains of Za’atari

…in the friendship between the boys and their hope for the future than this particular dream. El-Arabi dedicates the same care and attention to calls home to their parents to…

An image of Kris Rey superimposed over a still from her film, I Used to Go Here, featuring Gillian Jacobs. The image has the text, Interview, over it.

Alex Heeney / August 8, 2020

Kris Rey on her comedy of mid-30s malaise, I Used to Go Here

…with creative writing majors. She finds herself wandering over there out of nostalgia, and unexpectedly befriending the three boys who now live there: Animal (Forrest Goodluck), Hugo (Josh Wiggins), and…

Seventh Row Editors / March 1, 2023

Ep. 133. Berlinale 2023: Here, The Teachers’ Lounge, Delegation, and more

…Boys (Belgium/France, dir. Zeno Gratan) 37:20 Wrap up First, Alex discusses the best film of the festival she saw, Here (dir. Bas Devos), which screened in the Encounters section where…

A collage of stills from the best films of Berlinale 2021, against an afternoon sky backdrop.

Seventh Row Editors / March 25, 2021

The best films of Berlinale 2021

…the moment”. Still, it’s certainly a statement for the jury to award top honours to a film that begins with an extended unsimilated sex scenes. The scene in question is…

Goat, Ben Schnetzer

Alex Heeney / October 11, 2016

Andrew Neel’s Goat lacks psychological insight

…Neel’s take on the performativity of masculinity is inchoate, with little insight into what drives it and why most the boys aren’t able to break the cycle of toxic masculinity….

Heal the Living, Katell Quillévéré

Alex Heeney / May 10, 2017

Review: Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is a visual delight

…depicts the car crash that follows as a nightmare in which the boys’ pleasures become a danger: the driver imagines the open road is the ocean, drowning them. Still from…

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