Water Lilies paints a simple but effective picture of womanhood that is still rarely found in contemporary cinema.
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The Art of Yearning in Lesbian Cinema
“WLW are deeply intimate with the quiet and soft expression of yearning and no filmmaker encapsulates this better than Céline Sciamma.”
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The Césars 2020: A Shameful Evening for French Cinema
The evening was one of thick, palpable tension, propagated by tone-deaf jokes, unresponsive calling-out, and a lack of solidarity with those who were affected the most by nominations.
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REVIEW: ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ Teaches us Patience is a Virtue
French director, Céline Sciamma, delves away from the younger protagonists centres from her previous works to bring us Portrait of a Lady of Fire, an intimate look at a whirlwind lesbian romance in 18th Century France.
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