Despite its Name, Maya Da-Rin’s ‘A Febre’ (‘The Fever’) Wards Off Pathologising
In Maya Da-Rin’s first narrative feature film, A Febre (The Fever), Justino sits with his grandson Josué in the kitchen…
In Maya Da-Rin’s first narrative feature film, A Febre (The Fever), Justino sits with his grandson Josué in the kitchen…
“I see what you mean about the pageantry,” remarks Dani (Florence Pugh) in Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) as she scrolls…
One of the pleasures of Kelly Reichardt’s narrative films is that their plots (where they exist) never feel artificial: the…
Describing the motivation behind his feature The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not…
A common narrative about social media goes like this: something something anxiety and deep insecurity; it’s hard to see an…
“That’s all I need: an ordered life” —Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale, Grey Gardens Early last year, I experienced my…
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019) is an upstairs-downstairs tale of contemporary class inequalities, as a poor and a rich family become…
When I heard that Sony was going to be rebooting Charlie’s Angels in 2015, my heart – to cite Ariana…
If the radical potential of adaptation lies in its ability to harness the energy of an established text for new…
In Promises, Promises, Adam Phillips writes, “When people need a new question to ask of themselves, then it may be…
Having just seen Alla Kovgan’s documentary about the monolithic figurehead of modern dance, Merce Cunningham, it is now my job…
In Mati Diop’s short film Atlantiques (2009), three young Senegalese men sit around a bonfire in Dakar at night, one…
Watching Ute Aurand’s Rushing Green with Horses is like being spirited sideways into a pastoral. Shot entirely in 16mm with…
“Do all lovers feel like they’re making things up?” one woman asks another in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait de la jeune…
Recently our headlines have been dominated by young female scammers: scammers whose exploits are spoken of with breathless fascination. Their…
It’s difficult for me to process The Farewell, a film so acute in its approximation of the shape of my…
María Paz González’s first narrative feature Lina from Lima (2019) is a musical comedy about migrant life in Chile that…
Sophie Deraspe’s film adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone updates the central themes of the original – family, exile, state power and…
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open follows a day in the life of…
It would have been too precious for Winter’s Yearning to have been titled Waiting for Alcoa, yet Beckett’s existential drama…
In an interview in 1968 Pasolini described going especially from Casarsa to Udine to see Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle…