Where Are the Women? Foxcatcher
One wife and one mother appear only very briefly… and then only to represent a generic idea of the influence women have on men. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Year: 2015
Foxcatcher movie review: the rich are different
A pensive and unsettling film that defies genre description and keeps you wondering just what the heck sort of film you’re watching.
Where Are the Women? Gone Girl
Offers a very regressive view of a woman’s power in our culture, one that is faux feminist and supports a hoary fantasy of what women are “supposed” to be. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? The Judge
There isn’t a single woman here who is not defined exclusively as an adjunct to a man, even though there is plenty of room for women not limited by gender. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: Dilys Powell lived here
She was a film critic. Maybe she liked the dark of a basement flat.
Where Are the Women? Virunga
A female journalist doing a dangerous job accounts for the positive score, though she is the only woman who appears onscreen in any meaningful capacity. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Virunga documentary review: no walk in the park
This is not a nature documentary, though there are some beautiful scenes of wild spaces. This is war journalism, tense and upsetting.
Where Are the Women? Leviathan
While the writing and the plotting may not be clichéd overall, the film’s only significant female character here serves a completely clichéd part in it. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Leviathan movie review: you can’t fight city hall
The angry grandeur of its despair over how ordinary people get screwed by the powerful may be uniquely Russian, but it will hit home everywhere.
London photo: Carnaby mosaic
Near Carnaby Street in Central London.
