…process of sorting through her memories to come to terms with her choices and her life. Her outward journey complements this inward one and requires her to walk down from…
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Michael O’Connor on the joy of crafting true-to-life costumes in Ammonite
…town as Mary and is her ex-lover. The first time you see her in the film, you instantly know so much about her just by looking at her. How did…
TIFF 2019’s most exciting emerging actors to watch
…her peers in school, yet she still has moments of vulnerability that reveal her youth and inexperience. Frida embodied all of Noora’s nuance: her sharpness, her wit, the cracks in…
Stonewalling Film Review: Surviving an unwanted pregnancy
…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….
Chie Hayakawa on avoiding sentimentality in Plan 75
…directing her, and lighting her. Plan 75 is a humanist, unsentimental ensemble drama centered around 78-year-old Michi (a fantastic Chieko Baisho). When the film begins, she’s gainfully employed, living independently,…
Sonita and Sand Storm at Sundance: when the patriarchy looks like your mother
…optimistic that her progressive father might consent to the match. But when Layla’s conservative mother, Jalil, discovers the relationship, her mother instructs her to put an end to it. At…