‘Women Talking’: The Unbearable Lightness of Freedom
Minor spoilers for ‘Women Talking’ (2022)
This time last week I finished reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being, from the recently departed Milan Kundera. While it’s embarrassing to admit to only just getting round to reading it, in a coincidence that I’m sure people of a religious persuasion would describe as an instance of divine providence, it has proven to be fortunate timing for a moment of intertextuality.
I Care A Lot (2021): Review (Minor Spoilers)
Positive reviews of the film promised “an exhilarating pitch black comedy” and “a searing swipe at late-stage capitalism”, but neither of these concepts were realised…
Hunger (2008): Review (Minor Spoilers)
It merits reiterating… that the Caméra d’Or winning Hunger was a feature-length debut for the London-born director; and what a bold and barnstorming way to make one’s debut…
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020): Spoiler-Free Review
The conspicuous monologues and modest staging… contribute to a potent feeling that this film has failed to make its full transition from the stage to the big screen…
8 1/2 (1963): Spoiler Review
It gave me such existential angst to see the male psyche so innovatively and completely deconstructed and disintegrated…
The Lighthouse (2019): Spoiler-Free Review
Ironically, the scenes of violent masturbation were the least masturbatory thing about this film…
