…our 2021 preview. Fernanda Valadez announces herself as an exciting filmmaker with a captivating visual style with her debut, Identifying Features. The film follows a mother, Magdalena (Mercedes Hernández), who…
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Effie Gray a feminist not-quite fairy tale
…it’s considered beneath her, and she’s forbidden from doing the mending. Her boredom starts to defeat her, sending her into depression. Her mother-in-law sees this as an opportunity to feed…
Elle and Big Little Lies: Progressive representations of violence against women
…of exposing him, she regains control by beginning an affair with him, while also reconfiguring to her advantage her relationships with other men in her life. In contrast, Big Little…
The best films of Berlinale 2021
…her aunt and uncle because her mother, a former model, is too busy living her life in Shanghai to take care of Guo — or even answer her phone calls.”…
Devery Jacobs: ‘I had never seen it be done until I started doing it’
…based on her grandmother: a depressed mother who has forgotten her young daughter’s birthday. And in Ara Marumaru (2018), made over the course of just 72 hours in New Zealand…
We need to talk about sex in On Chesil Beach
…This complements Florence’s own quiet rebellion against her posh upbringing: she protests against nuclear war to her mother’s chagrin, and she wants to work as a musician running her own…