On Emma Seligman’s ‘Shiva Baby’
Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby is a confused and hectic debut that follows a young woman, Danielle (Rachel Sennott), who is…
Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby is a confused and hectic debut that follows a young woman, Danielle (Rachel Sennott), who is…
What might Charlie Kaufman have left to say about himself after writing about himself and his screenwriter ego personified as…
In Maya Da-Rin’s first narrative feature film, A Febre (The Fever), Justino sits with his grandson Josué in the kitchen…
One of the pleasures of Kelly Reichardt’s narrative films is that their plots (where they exist) never feel artificial: the…
“My characters rarely find themselves where they want to be in the world: there is always somewhere to escape from,…
Autumn, the 17-year-old protagonist of Eliza Hittman’s sophomore film Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), first stands out because of her…
Having just seen Alla Kovgan’s documentary about the monolithic figurehead of modern dance, Merce Cunningham, it is now my job…
Utopias critique by differentiation, springing from a lack. They work, writes Lucy Sargisson, “by creating distant spaces whence to interrogate…
“What would happen to a woman after the war, when there is a tectonic shift in her mind, her nature?”1…
In their adaption of Yasmina Kadra’s novel The Swallows of Kabul (2002), director/actress Zabou Breitman and animator Eléa Gobbé Mévellec…