Category: Review
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar is a film that is quite unexpected and unusual, this isn’t a criticism of the film but rather praise. The film…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni)
When a film sets out to tell the story of a young girl, who is essentially abducted and forced to live in a Zambian witch…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Laura Moss’ Fry Day
It is the night of Ted Bundy’s execution, and an entrepreneurial teenager decides to make a quick buck selling Polaroids of those attending. These are…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Awakenings (Penny Marshall)
Based upon the memoir of the same name by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings (1990) revisits the summer of ‘69 – when Sacks explored ways in which…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Mrs. Poucheau
First published March 21st 2018 At some point in our lives, we will inevitably experience the loss of a loved one. It’s a sad and…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Monsoon Wedding – Mira Nair
Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding blends wonderful Indian tradition into a modern story of family, love, and the test of values. It introduces cultural backgrounds into…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Pea Pod
Pea Pod is a hilarious short which is amazing in the fact that the film’s cast and crew was made up of 100% women with…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Houda Benyamina’s Divines
I remember my wife so happened to be fed up of the coming-of-age movies when we sat down to watch this one. Or else she…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats
In Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman’s second feature film, the idea of sexual identity is explored through the main character Frankie (played by Harris Dickinson). Frankie…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Ekaj
Originally published July 23rd 2018 Ekaj deals with hard material and stark revelations. One of its most powerful scenes comes towards the movie’s close, as…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Attenberg – Athina Rachel Tsangari
You don’t have to be an expert, let alone a film critic, to have your thoughts swing over to the maniacal, mesmeric Dogtooth, when watching Athina Rachel…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: On Dangerous Ground – Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray
On Dangerous Ground is one of the most unique and interesting classic film noirs. Here is a film that begins in hard-boiled city streets, following…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Ninnoc – Niki Padidar
The opening hustle bustle, the mellow sounds, of clustered little voices, we soon figure out is a school. And drops of slight sound thuds, not…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Snow White Cologne – Amanda Eliasson
Snow White Cologne is a visual animated poem created using acrylic paint on paper, it not like anything you have ever seen before. Beautiful and…