Advertisements Are you not Lisbeth Salander, the righter of wrongs? The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? The girl who hurts men who hurt women? Those who love the grungy, leather-clad Lisbeth Salander from the well-known novels or the previous films will be…
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Advertisements Getting to see new films during a festival a few weeks before having to write university exams is both a blessing and a curse. It is ultimately great because it takes your mind off of thinking about all that you need…
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Advertisements Wanuri Kahiu’s Rafiki is a tender and beautifully told story of forbidden lesbian romance in Kenya. This is a defiant depiction of hope and self expression set in a place where gay sex is punishable by fourteen years in jail. Making…
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Advertisements Film festival season—my favourite time of the year—is finally here, and at FilmEra it is here in a very big way with so many festivals being reported on this month. With all that is screening, it is so great to read…
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Advertisements I just want a quiet house. I thought that if you could hear the voices, you’d be able to stop them. It’s that time of year when a multitude of horror films come out during the Halloween season: some good, some…
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White Material is a beautiful work of cinema, somehow managing to capture the ferocious terror of war and violence as well as the quiet beauty of a country and its people all at once.…
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Advertisements Ousmane Sembene’s Black Girl (originally titled La noire de…) depicts the tragedy that can arise from isolation and loneliness. It deals with ideas of francophone identity, particularly in a post-colonial African context. It is arguably Sembene’s most acclaimed and well-known feature…
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A stunning piece of cinema and a portrait of a tragic event in history, depicted from the perspective of a woman.…
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