Major spoilers for ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ ahead! “Psychological patriarchy is a “dance of contempt,” a perverse form of connection that replaces true intimacy with complex, covert layers of dominance and submission, collusion and manipulation. It is the unacknowledged paradigm of relationships that has suffused Western civilization generation after generation, deforming both sexes, and destroying the…
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Catherine Called Birdy catches filmmaker Lena Dunham at her most confident yet
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“Female leadership and ambition should be celebrated for how creative and beautiful they can be, even in the wake of violence.”
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“Östlund can dress entertainment in an intellectual cloak and give it a unique taste like no one else” There’s no doubt that Ruben Östlund is one of the best mockers of contemporary cinema today. As the director has mentioned, his previous films The Square (2017) and Force Majeure (2014) were about people trying to avoid…
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It would be hard to believe that cinema’s most revolutionary voice would go gentle into that good night. On the 13th of September 2022, and entirely in keeping with the fearlessness that marked out his creations, the 91-year-old iconoclast chose a time and place of his own making. As a critic, Godard railed against bourgeois…
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‘Kuosmanen wipes away this alternative story, and instead history is relegated to the sidelines of this film about forging human connection based on little other than present circumstances and emotional necessity.’
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“An ode to the dawn of cinema and a reminder of the death of the American Dream.” At the height of the Spanish Influenza and the coup de grace of World War I, an isolated farmhouse occupies acres of land in the southern United States. Inside lives Pearl (Mia Goth), a spirited and passionate young…
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A24’s newest endeavour takes the plunge but comes up weak in Aftersun
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“There are small yet significant moments of intimacy and trust between the two characters that can almost go unnoticed. It isn’t the kind of show where characters declare their love or express feelings explicitly, but rather the actions and sacrifices show how much they mean to each other.”
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“Ultimately, in ‘Lost in Translation,’ it is through the act of reinforcing the stigmatized image of an Asian man, rather than the act of challenging it, that the main theme of the film is established.”
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