Category: Review
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Dicks That I Like (Johanna Gustin)
The moment the opening voice-over drifts into our ears, with the visuals of art materials, a combination of prickly backstories and a kind of creative…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Hands (Lara Haciosmanoglu)
When you first watch the short film Hands, made by Chicago-based film student, Lara Haciosmanoglu, it is fairly easy to pick at the bones of…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Bringing Out the Dead – the imperfect illusions of La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Alice Rohrwacher’s sublime La Chimera is just now (in September 2024) finishing up an incredible six month run at the IFC Center in New York…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Navin Frame (Swati Nilesh Ghorpade)
A family has gathered around their son as he prepares to leave home for college. Little sis is angling for him to leave her his…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi)
In dreams, two deer – a stag and a doe – forage for grass in a snow-covered forest and drink from a stream. In reality,…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Laggies (Lynn Shelton)
With her first (and only) fully scripted feature length film, director Lynn Shelton took audiences on a journey which captures the timeless experience of one’s…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: In Bed With Victoria (Justine Triet)
Revisiting In Bed with Victoria (2016) following Justine Triet’s 2024 Academy Award win for best original screenplay feels apt. Triet’s history in documentary filmmaking is…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Twig (Claire Sanford)
Of all the films that I have seen so far at the Femme Filmmakers Festival, none have resonated more with urgency as Twig. This film…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: I Don’t Need to Know (Erin Murray)
This is a darkly funny film about when relationships reach a point where they might not survive due to a revelation one partner shares with…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Aqui Y Allá (Isabella Breton)
The work and life of photographer Winston Vargas is the subject of this film, but it is actually more about his love for his adopted…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
Gliding across the pristine pink carpet Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) readies herself for the hospital. The young mother, already a picture of perfection, ensures her…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Brown Brit (The Romantix)
This beautiful, quietly nostalgic film consisting of family home movies and photos belies the raw pain of a life of suppression and self-denial. There is…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Mirror Stacy (Arabella Sharkey)
Films about mental health issues can be difficult to plot successfully. Either they come off as too easily resolved, trivializing the experiences of those suffering…
2014 in Film: Incomparably We Remember ‘The Book of Life’
“Behold, children, the glorious beauty of Mexico!” – The Book of Life Although it is often compared to Disney’s Coco (2017) in a way that…
