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Category Archives: Bechdel pass

The Kitchen Brigade (La Brigade) (2022)

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If you’re feeling a bit down about your life, watch this film.

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June 21, 2022 Leave a comment

Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

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A panacea for Downton fans, Downton Abbey: A New Era is as insubstantial as a cucumber sandwich with the crusts cut off.

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June 20, 2022 Leave a comment

How to Please a Woman (2022)

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A gentle and slightly awkward Australian comedy by Renée Webster that puts female pleasure in the centre of the story.

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June 19, 2022 Leave a comment

A Resistance (항거:유관순 이야기) (2019)

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Cho Min-ho gives us a measured exploration of the Korean independence protests of the 20s that thoroughly engages with its focus on one women and her plight.

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November 27, 2021 Leave a comment

El Planeta (2021)

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This artful satire by writer/director/star Amalia Ulman almost works but I couldn’t help feeling I was missing the point.

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November 26, 2021 Leave a comment

Beginning (დასაწყისი) (2020)

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Note to self – if they liken a film to the work of Michael Haneke, you are probably not going to love it. Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s first feature borrows heavily from Haneke’s handbook, with extended scenes of our protagonist lying on the ground pretending to be dead or sitting in a chair.

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November 24, 2021 Leave a comment

The Justice of Bunny King (2021)

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Damn you, Gaysorn Thavat, you made me cry. I thought this might be a run-of-the-mill feel-good drama about a feisty woman fighting the system but it was so much more.

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November 23, 2021 Leave a comment

Radiograph of a Family (2020)

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Firouzeh Khosrovani constructs a surprisingly tender collage of her parents’ lives that shows the fractures caused by the Iranian Revolution.

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November 22, 2021 Leave a comment

There is No Evil (شیطان وجود ندارد‎) (2020)

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I couldn’t look away for the 150 minutes of Mohammad Rasoulof’s intense meditation on the death penalty, told through four stories of individuals who are part of the system of capital punishment in Iran.

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November 21, 2021 2 Comments

Hive (Zgjoi) (2021)

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Blerta Basholli’s quiet and forceful drama about the awfulness of war and its effect on women in patriarchal small-town society is a welcome companion-piece to Strong Female Lead (2021) where we saw how hard it was to maintain respect and autonomy, even when you are the elected leader of a country.

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November 19, 2021 Leave a comment

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