Review: Bora Kim’s 'House of Hummingbird' ('Beol-sae') – Berlinale
Bora Kim’s House of Hummingbird had its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival last October, but I saw it…
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Screening Female Desire: Bette Gordon's ‘Variety’ 35 Years On
‘Once in a fiction workshop my professor critiqued a scene because “women wouldn’t ask about a hookup’s performance in bed”…
What goes up must come down: Marie Kreutzer’s ‘The Ground Beneath My Feet’ – Berlinale
“She’s not fit for this life,” says Lola to a doctor as they stand together beside her sister’s hospital bed.…
Portrait of Teona Strugar Mitevska
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Failing to Act, Acting to Fail: The Films of Margarethe von Trotta
“How is it that some people decide the fate of others?” asks Rosa Luxemburg in the opening of Margarethe von…
Finding Your Rage: On Club des Femmes’ ‘Revolt, She Said’ Programme
In 2018, feminism is everywhere and nowhere at once. Women, we are told, can now be CEOs, and entrepreneurs and…
Two people in a house: Catherine Corsini’s 'An Impossible Love' ('Un amour impossible')
The poster for An Impossible Love shows a man with his back turned, eyes averted, hands in pockets. He’s facing…
Portrait of Penny Lane
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Notes on Alfonso Cuarón’s 'Roma'
The first plane in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma sails across a snatch of sky mirrored in soapy water; the next, in…
‘Intra-active’ desire in Joachim Trier’s ‘Thelma’
There’s something within you. If you truly desire something with your mind and body,there’s something within you that can make…
On 'Killing Eve'
Is it possible to tell when a television programme has been masterminded by a woman? And if so, what is…
Wandering across Frames: Moyra Davey and the Feminist Essay Film
In ‘Walking with Nandita’, an essay for documenta 14composedof photographs and fragments of text, Canadian artist Moyra Davey traces the…
Call For Submissions – Another Gaze 03
Feminist film journal Another Gaze is seeking submissions for its third print issue, to be released this May.
Of Marceline Loridan-Ivens
In 2003 I saw a film that absolutely knocked me out with its incomparable visual beauty, its exploration of traumatic…
Super-ego, super-charged: Luca Guadagnino’s 'Suspiria'
While Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name (2017) received general acclaim last year, one particular critique cut through the…
“I have always wanted it”: Sebastián Lelio's 'Disobedience'
Disobedience, Sebastian Lelio’s adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel of the same name, follows the story of Ronit, a lapsed Orthodox…