Oh the sweet nostalgia of the 90s! The toxic world of commercial photography, particularly if you’re a woman, and the chic of heroin-fuelled nights.
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The Little Sister (2025)
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Fatima (Nadia Melliti) is an Algerian teen living in France. She loves football, hangs out with her bros at school, and spars with her older sisters as they tease her for not knowing how to cook or dress in a way that men like.
Continue readingDrive-Away Dolls (2024)
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It’s a swing and a miss from Ethan Coen‘s first solo film without his brother Joel.
Continue readingAll of Us Strangers (2023)
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I still feel suffused with the golden light and intense motion of Andrew Haigh’s masterful exploration of individual and generational grief.
Continue readingHousekeeping for Beginners (2023)
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Goran Stolevski drops us into a maelstrom of a household and holds us there through grief and hardship and transcendent moments of love.
Continue readingLove Lies Bleeding (2024)
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Refreshingly unpredictable and the kind of film that would usually have been about blokes, not daughters and body building lovers.
Continue readingProblemista (2023)
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I’m not sure what I was expecting out of Julio Torres’s sweet and quirky almost fairytale about speaking up for yourself. Something easy to watch. I wasn’t expecting to find it so poignant.
Continue readingHeavenly Creatures (1994)
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My Old Ass (2024)
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I needed to see a film like this that would fill up my cup after a MIFF that seems heavy on melancholy.
Continue readingAll Shall Be Well (2024)
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There is nothing really to criticise about the quality of this film. It is a delicate and tender portrait of a lesbian couple in Hong Kong, made tragic by the death of one that then cuts the other adrift with no rights in a heterosexual and patriarchal society.
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