Tagged Filmfest München 2019

Unfortunately, it’s still a rare thing to see female-centered science fiction films today. Rarer still to see one with an older female protagonist – and rarest of all, a sci-fi film from Cuba. It’s a...

Waves crash violently against the cliffside in the opening shot of Defiant Souls (Insumisas): nature dwarfs the woman who faces the weather nonetheless – defiant, as the title suggests. This is the true...

Based on a stage play by co-writer Eileen Atkins, Chanya Button’s sophomore feature Vita & Virginia is supposed to be a long overdue film about the great love affair between Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth...

Films focusing on Isabelle Huppert in dubious encounters with young blonde girls seem to be well on the way to becoming a genre of their own. After seducing and ultimately holding hostage Chloë Grace Moertz...