Berlinale – Yoko Yamanaka's 'Amiko'
I’ve never been sure what lemons are supposed to symbolise and the internet is no help. Are they meant to…
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A journal of films and feminisms
Berlinale – Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß's 'My Happy Family'
A 52-year-old woman decides to move out of her family home and take an apartment alone. She has no apparent…
The Second Coming: Why Women Filmmakers Struggle To Get Their Second Features Made
The main point of contention in the much-deliberated issue of gender representation across the cinema isn’t the existence of the…
BERLINALE – Bojina Panayotova's 'I See Red People' (Je Vois Rouge)
Early on in I See Red People, Bojina Panayotova, the director and protagonist of the documentary, calls her mother, Mirena,…
BERLINALE – Marysia Nikitiuk's 'When the Trees Fall' ('Koly Padayut Dereva')
Ukrainian first-time feature director Marysa Nikitiuk’s When the Trees Fall is a fairytale of gasping, screaming excess, where narrative is…
BERLINALE – The Debt of a Mother’s Love: On Yang Mingming's 'Girls Always Happy'
To be a woman is to be in a world that understands you as other; the mere act of being…
Of River Gods and Women: Guillermo Del Toro's 'The Shape of Water'
In 1960, a state-of-the-art beachfront laboratory nestled in the Caribbean island of St Thomas began training dolphins to understand the…
On the Double Nature of Filmed Mice
I'm watching Marketa Lazarova with a friend and we’re halfway through a scene that I consider to be one of…
A Backwards Trajectory through Camille Henrot’s 'Days are Dogs'
A pulsing flower, a botox injection, a watery baptism: through this collection of images, Camille Henrot’s Saturday (2017) explores the…
On Andrey Zvyagintsev's 'Loveless' and the casual cruelty of modern love
If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, the women of Loveless make clear how, for scorned women, the…
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Power, performance and personhood: On 'Phantom Thread'
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A Hard, Uncomfortable and Poetic Film About the Survival of People: On 'Mudbound'
In his novel, Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner writes: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Born…
Between the Ingénue and the Heroine: on Sandrine Bonnaire’s 'Marianne Faithfull: Fleur d’Âme'
Sandrine Bonnaire possesses a face which, in its planar, geometric architecture, seems designed to be in front of the camera,…
Little More Than A Temper Tantrum: On Ruben Östlund's 'The Square
The Square opens on an interview between art curator Christian (Claes Bang) and journalist Anne (Elisabeth Moss). She starts gently…
A Shamefully Cack-Handed Depiction of Violence Against Women and Ethnic Minorities: On 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'
TW: Rape, racial violence, police brutality