Dukhtar movie review: giving voice to women who have none
A gripping story from a place where women are less than second-class citizens that insists that they are, in fact, people who deserve to live as they please.
Month: October 2015
Paris photos: Star Wars cafe
Rue Dante is a bit of a geek quarter, home to a whole bunch of comics shops and this Star Wars-themed cafe.
Where Are the Women? 99 Homes
With one tiny (and barely noticeable) exception, women here are nothing more than lovers or mothers to men.
99 Homes movie review: the foreclosing of the American dream
A horror story of today’s economy, of America’s heartless culture in which maximizing profit is all. Michael Shannon brings his usual terrifying intensity.
Paris photos: so many weddings!
Everywhere we went in Paris, we saw couples having their wedding photos taken.
Where Are the Women? Suffragette
It is wonderful to see women in roles with historical and cultural significance. This is splendid representation of women as fully human people.
Suffragette movie review: then they fight you (LFF 2015)
The first feature film ever about the women who fought for their right to vote is glorious. It is angry and passionate and defiant. It is essential.
Paris photo: opera at Sacre Coeur
An opera singer performing on the side steps of Sacre Coeur, in Montmartre.
Paris photo: stairs de Triomphe
Heading down the spiraling staircase from the top of the Arc de Triomphe is a dizzying experience…
Where Are the Women? Sicario
The female protagonist is smart and competent, wields authority like a total badass, and is an intriguingly conflicted, wonderfully awful mess.
