TIFF Review: Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Her Smell’
Alex Ross Perry’s latest feature, Her Smell, focuses on the career of a rock star, Becky (played by Elisabeth Moss),…
TIFF Review: Margarethe von Trotta’s ‘Searching for Ingmar Bergman’
Searching for Ingmar Bergman opens with acclaimed German director Margarethe von Trotta in Gotland, on the rocky beach from several…
Power, performance and personhood: On ‘Phantom Thread’
Contains spoilers: In 1950s London, spoiled fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day Lewis) lives a privileged, glamorous life. Coddled by…
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…
Review: ‘Mary Shelley’
Haifaa al-Mansour’s Mary Shelley suggests that the eponymous writer’s classic novel Frankenstein is the result of the influence of men…
Review: ‘Wind River’
TW: rape The idea of making a thriller based around the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women is startling:…
Cinematic Riots: Feminism and Surrealism in Germaine Dulac’s ‘La Coquille et le Clergyman’
Germaine Dulac’s La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) was arguably the first surrealist film ever made. Admired…