Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture is a delightful Finnish coming-of-ager which takes teenage girls, their sexuality, and their trauma seriously.
Women Directors
In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.
Happening looks at the culture of shame around abortion
Audrey Diwan’s Happening follows a young woman’s journey in the 1960s to even find a backstreet abortionist amidst a culture of shame and silence.
Ep. 36: Never Rarely Sometimes Always and abortion on screen
Inspired by Eliza Hittman’s new drama, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, we discuss various depictions of abortion on screen ranging from this year’s Saint Frances to Obvious Child and 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. For this discussion, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney is joined by Executive Editor Orla Smith and guest Lindsay Pugh of Woman in Revolt.
Ep. 121: Ninjababy & Obvious Child: Unwanted pregnancies in romantic comedies
Lindsay Pugh joins hosts Alex Heeney and Orla Smith for a discussion of two rom-coms about unwanted pregnancies, Ninja Baby and Obvious Child.
The Lost Daughter is a skillful adaptation by Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut skillfully adapts Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, the story of a middle-aged woman who shouldn’t have had kids and is now spiraling while on vacation. The film is now streaming worldwide on Netflix.
Run Woman Run is a feel good movie about recovering from trauma
Zoe Leigh Hopkins’s Run Woman Run is a thirty-something coming-of-ager about learning to love and care for yourself amidst a lot of trauma.