Where Are the Women? Inherent Vice
Women? If they’re not hookers or heartbreakers, they’re just standing around being decorative. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Year: 2015
Where Are the Women? Focus
Par for the Hollywood course: a woman plays second fiddle to a man… until he decides that he is ready to claim her as his prize. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
This story could have worked in a similar way had the protagonist been male, but the fact that she is a woman brings in new levels of subtext and meaning. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
With lots of female characters living full, rich lives, this movie offers a well-rounded depiction of women as vital, sexual beings into their 70s and 80s. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? It Follows
The female protagonist, in the course of being punished for having sex, is haunted by a spectre who sometimes appears as a naked or half-naked woman… [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: behind bars
Another humorously altered No Entry road sign.
Where Are the Women? Ida
Women aren’t just represented here, they also represent something much bigger and much more universal than themselves. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Ida movie review: alas poor Poland?
A beautiful film, and a mysterious one. I don’t quite know what to make of it, but I have been seduced by its evasive intrigue.
Continuum (aka I’ll Follow You Down) movie review: the time traveler’s family
Indie science fiction with a rare humanism, a scientific and emotional mystery with a solution Hollywood wouldn’t dare go anywhere near.
Where Are the Women? Beyond the Lights
This movie is so great a representation of women that even the female protagonist’s mother, the antagonist, is not primarily defined as a mother. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
