Prolongs her previous movie but lacks its unity
Cast: Alicia Vikander, David Dencik, Anna Bjelkerud
Director: Lisa Langseth
Writer: Lisa Langseth
Music by Johan Berthling, Andreas Söderström
Cinematography by Simon Pramsten
Film Editing by Elin Pröjts
This comedy would have been acceptable if played by teenagers, but is absolutely ludicrous in an (young) adult context. Kat Coiro proved she can do much better with her preceding “And While We Were Here”!
Cast: Justin Long, Keir O’Donnell, Evan Rachel Wood
Director: Kat Coiro
Writers: Christian Long , Justin Long
Music by Mateo Messina
Cinematography by Doug Chamberlain
Film Editing by Adam Catino, Matt Landon
First feature
Confusing the codes between victim-perpetrator-witness, artist and subject…
Cast: Mireille Enos, Sam Shepard, Goran Visnjic
Director: Camille Thoman
Writers: Camille Thoman
Music by James Lavino
Cinematography by Sebastian Winterø
Film Editing by Jon Berry, Walter Fasano, Robin Hill, Camille Thoman
Great acting, but the way the lead actress is kept at a distance prevents a better empathy
Cast: Maggie Siff, John Ortiz, Cara Seymour
Director: Elisabeth Subrin
Writer: Elisabeth Subrin
Cinematographer: Chris Dapkins
Editor: Jennifer Ruff
A potentially good story turned into a stupid action movie with lots of shooting and meaningless violence. A positive point: one of the first movies in which women are physically involved in the action.
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon, Gary Goldman
Photographed by Jost Vacano
Edited by Frank J. Urioste
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Good direction and personage, weak scenario, unclear message
Actors: Breeda Wool, Ben Rovner, Jess Adams
Director: Beth Dewey
Writers: Beth Dewey, Justo Diaz
Music: E. Shepherd Stevenson
Cinematography: Yasu Tanida
Editing: Beth Dewey
A most intelligent cry of revolt against violence perpetrated on women
SPOILERS AHEAD
Inanna (Amy Ferguson) joins an experimental theater group that works on the Mesopotamian myth of Inanna, and more specifically on the liberation of enslaved women. After a few rehearsals, she comes to the conclusion that she does not possess the primal rage and the raw longing for freedom that the other women in the play possess. In a most upsetting scene, these women tell how they have been victims of extreme sexualized violence.
At the same time, Inanna falls head over heels in love with Derek, a mask maker (Morgan Spector), and marries him. Right from the start, she adapts her life to his, while he refuses to change anything in his own life. He doesn’t even stop the affair he had with his assistant (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), claiming that she was there first.
Inanna soon realizes that she is losing her identity while getting nothing in return. Profoundly wounded and feeling like drowning, she is now able to express the primal rage and the raw longing for freedom that the play requires from her.
Cast: Amy Ferguson, Morgan Spector, Anna Mouglalis
Director: Deborah Kampmeier
Writers: Deborah Kampmeier, Deborah Kampmeier
Music: Leslie Graves, Michelangelo Sosnowitz
Cinematography: Alison Kelly
Editing: Siobhan Dunne
“The Namesake” reminds us of what it means to be American.
Cast: Kal Penn, Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Sahira Nair, Jacinda Barrett, Zuleikha Robinson
Directed: Mira Nair
Photography: Frederick Elmes
Writers: Sooni Taraporevala; based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri