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…
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…
Bare life, corrupt elites and surviving in today’s America: On Steve McQueen’s ‘Widows’
While the United States Senate was debating the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh in Washington DC, the trial of a century…
On ‘Crazy Rich Asians’, crazy rich Asia, and capitalism in the time of postcolonial love
A truth universally acknowledged in East Asia is that a wealthy married woman with ample free time is in want…
Of Broken Bones and Ecstatic Dreams: On Chloé Zhao’s ‘The Rider’
When Lupita Nyong’o ascended the stage to accept her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2014, the straight-out-of-drama-school newcomer…
In praise of teenage self-disgust: ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’
The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but in The Miseducation of Cameron Post, it is those…
Suffering and the Limits of Criticism: Jenny Lu’s ‘The Receptionist’
When Jenny Lu graduated from London’s Chelsea College of Art in 2009, she left with the same bright-eyed optimism typical…
‘Ocean’s 8’, Anna Delvey, and our love for the woman who wants to own the world
Debbie Ocean has been in prison for five years, eight months, and 12 days. Her brother Danny is dead. Probably….
Men will never save you: On Coralie Fargeat’s ‘Revenge’
At the start of Coralie Fargeat’s debut film Revenge, Jen, the protagonist, could be an image plucked from a…
Lean on Pete, the anti-Odyssean epic
Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete takes the Yorkshire-born filmmaker to the luxuriant plains of America’s Pacific Northwest, where a fifteen-year-old…
The Provincialism of the White Hipster: On Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’
Isle of Dogs presents, without a hint of irony, an American filmmaker’s fiction about the horrors of an internment camp…
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 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…
Beauty is truth: on Alain Gomis’s ‘Félicité’
Félicité is a singer at a local bar in Kinshasa, the busy and vibrant capital of the Democratic Republic of…
Mischief in the Magic Castle: On Sean Baker’s ‘The Florida Project’
It is said that well-behaved women seldom make history. In Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, the badly behaved ones make…