Tag: Review
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Wake Up (Olivia Wilde)
Previously working on Booksmart, which marked her directorial debut and received Golden Globes and Bafta nominations in 2019, Olivia Wilde claimed her status as one…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Long Time Listener, First Time Caller
Nora Kirkpatrick’s Long Time Listener, First Time Caller is a jewel of a film that like any precious stone, never fails to impress no matter…
FemeFilmFest20 Review Round-up: Home, Girl in the Hallway, Find Me Mother, The Gray Area
Margot Douglas joins the Femme Filmmakers Festival fray to chime on four of the short films featured in this year’s Competition Selection. Home (Anita Bruvere)…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Little Woods (Nia DaCosta)
Though called Crossing the Line in the UK, Little Woods is the debut film from Nia DaCosta. Released two years ago, the drama sees Tessa…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Welcome Home (Armita Keyani)
Welcome Home is a funny, awkward, and simple look at different cultures and religions along with the combination of the two and the projection of…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Just Me and You (Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers)
Just Me and You (Juste moi et toi) is a short, Canadian film directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers. It takes us on a poignant journey between…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Concealer (Kristine Gerolaga)
Concealer is an insightful short feature which proposes a very ambitious discussion of a pressing contemporary concern – falling victim to multi-level marketing schemes. At…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (Tatyana Lioznova)
Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (1968) is a Russian romantic-comedy, being a success for the Russian film industry with 26 million people seeing it in…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Growing up in the shadow of a father who crafted some of the most influential and talked about films of the 20th century, would likely…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Haolu Wang’s The Pregnant Ground
Pregnancy and birth are often not discussed in society, other than for the expected highlight reel: pregnancy announcement, gender reveal, baby name announcement, etc, etc,…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Diane Keaton (Georgia Michailidi)
Diane Keaton is a film about the anti-romanticism of being a muse. Of the impracticality of being sung or written about and the muse lacking…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Old Enough (Marisa Silver)
Our teenage years are essentially made up of mimicry. We leave the nest of our parents, flocking together, or perhaps to another, taken under the…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Shelter in Place (Kelsie Moore)
Salt Lake City, Utah looks to be a beautiful place, at least from what can be seen from the windows of a church. That is…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
20 years ago, the world looked very different, especially in regard to LGBTQ+ rights. 11 months before But I’m a Cheerleader premiered at the Toronto…
