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
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War Sailor Film Review: A character drama reveals an untold part of WWII history
Alex Heeney reviews writer-director Gunnar Vikane’s film War Sailor, which is the best kind of war movie: a character drama that happens amidst war, focusing most on how the characters are changed by the atrocities over the years.
TIFF Review: Patrick and the Whale
Patrick and the Whale is a delightful doc about a man who just wants to be friends with sperm whales.
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.