Femme Film Friday: “Being Maria” and “I Know Catherine, the Log Lady”
BEING MARIA – directed by Jessica Palud “I want to be free as an actor to explore where a scene can go, but if it’s going to be a fight scene or a sex scene, you’ve got to stop the fudging because you can’t just see where it goes.”—Greta Gerwig This truth memorably articulated by […]
Cinema Femme at Sundance Day 4: Happening, Alice, Hatching and Nanny
Happening The two best films I’ve seen thus far in 2022 won acclaim on the festival circuit last year prior their premieres at Sundance, and both happen to be astonishingly vivid portraits of female identity: Joaquim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” and Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” the latter of which won the top prize […]