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Rachel Weisz

August 17, 2021

The Impossibility of Plans in ‘The Deep Blue Sea’: How a Movie about Suicide Helped Me to Survive

Watching this film about a suicidal woman living in London after WWII the same winter her dad attempted suicide for the second time paradoxically taught this writer how to survive a suicide in her present-day life.…

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May 8, 2021

The Paradox of Rachel Weisz in ‘The Mummy’

A “meek librarian” becomes a dashing adventuress, subverting archetypes along the way.…

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July 31, 2020

The Religious Repression of Lesbian Desire in ‘Disobedience’, ‘Thelma’, and ‘Novitiate’

The repressive nature of religion leaves deep impressions upon each of their lives in their starvation for touch, their fragile, suppressed identities, their insecurities, and their inability to accept their romantic and sexual desires.…

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June 2, 2020

Permission to Yearn: The Problem with the Popularity of White Lesbians in Period Films

The prevalence of white women in popular queer media attaches an erroneously exclusive definition of 'palatable' lesbianism.…

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May 9, 2019

The Manipulations of Power in Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘The Favourite’

The battle for favouritism does not come without a mass of cunning charm and duplicity.…

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December 16, 2018

‘The Favourite’ Review

One of the greatest films of 2018 and Yorgos Lanthimos' best yet…

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December 5, 2018

‘Disobedience’: Liberation in Love

An exploration of sensuality and loneliness…

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