Tag: Female Directors
You Hurt My Feelings Review (Sundance Film Festival)
You Hurt My Feelings follows novelist Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who is in the process of writing a new novel after her previous effort failed to make a big splash. Beth’s psychiatrist husband, Don (Tobias Menzies) supports his wife’s…
Read More »Polite Society Highlights Sisterhood and its Cinematic Influences (Sundance Film Festival)
Polite Society follows Ria Khan (Priya Kansara), a London schoolgirl who dreams of using her martial artist training to become a stuntwoman. Her sister Lena (Ritu Arya) is a fellow creative enrolled in art school who helps Ria…
Read More »Saint Omer is an Intimate Examination of How the Challenges of Immigration and Women Intersect
Saint Omer is told from the perspective of Rama (Kayije Kagame), the daughter of African immigrants and a novelist by trade, who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga), a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter…
Read More »Women Talking Struggles to Add Anything New or Unique to the Conversation (Middleburg Film Festival)
Women Talking thrusts us into a group of eight women from an isolated Mennonite colony who have learned that the men of their religious community have been drugging and raping their women, even teen girls, for years. A…
Read More »She Said Takes a Deep Dive on Systemic Abuse (Middleburg Film Festival)
The investigation into the behavior of legendary, and now infamous, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein marked the beginning of a seismic shift in how the country addressed sexual harassment and misconduct. A new film sets to document the journey toward exposing…
Read More »Elizabeth Banks Shines in the Timely Film Call Jane (Sundance Film Festival)
The recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which found that the United States Constitution does not confer a right to abortion was a landmark case that gave American states the right to institute…
Read More »The Woman King: How to Balance Historical Accuracy and Filmmaking
Historically based films in Hollywood have never been lauded for their accuracy. Some of film’s most beloved cinematic masterpieces have been extremely dubious with the truth surrounding their stories, sometimes egregiously so. Despite this, these films are usually…
Read More »Don’t Worry Darling, Message Filmmaking Will Hopefully Course Correct Soon
In our increasingly polarized country, people are increasingly feeling as if they have to dig their heels into the political landscape and choose a side. At times, it feels as if political polarization has slowly seeped into every…
Read More »Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Is a Satire Whose Flat Humor Undercuts It Entirely (Sundance Film Festival)
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. aims to satirize how confining, empty, and hypocritical religion can be. Whether it be how it stifles human sexuality and women as an entire class with its with misogynistic tendencies, or how the…
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A Thousand and One is an Impressive, Twisty Look at Family Amidst Poverty and Struggle (Sundance Film Festival)
A Thousand and One finds us alongside Inez (Teyana Taylor), a young woman moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. As a result of her situation, she has lost her 6-year-old son Terry (portrayed as…
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