In Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, violence erupts in Miss Martha’s seminary, poorly-defended citadel of virtue, but the women never lose their poise.
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.
Review: The Bad Batch is frustratingly undercooked
Ana Lily Amirpour’s wasteland survival story, The Bad Batch raises a lot of issues while never quite getting to its point.
Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival highlighted great queer coming-of-agers
Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival, a showcase for current LGBT cinema, featured several great queer coming-of-agers from around the world: Handsome Devil, A Date for Mad Mary, In Between, and God’s Own Country.
Writer-director Amanda Kernell talks Sami Blood
Amanda Kernell discusses her exquisite feature debut, “a coming-of-age story, with joik and blood, about a girl with a knife,” and how it illuminates South Sami history.
Review: In Sami Blood, an Indigenous Swedish girl is caught between two worlds
Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood is an astonishingly accomplished and movie feature debut, which follows an Indigenous Swedish girl caught between two worlds. Read our interview with writer-director Amanda Kernell. Read our review of Kernell’s second feature, Charter.
Review: In Marcela Said’s Los Perros, the personal is political
Los Perros fearlessly reveals the dilemma for women forced to choose between a desire to do whatever they want, and a desire to be recognised as political individuals.