Occasion: Movie with the folks Anticipation: Medium Overall Rating: Wadjda is a complex and deeply personal look at what it is to be female in Saudi Arabia. Eleven year old Wadjda (Mohammed) seems out of place in the confines of the culture she has been raised in. Sneaker-wearing, often unveiled and incredibly entrepreneurial, she has only one […]
Occasion: Friday Film with Friends (as part of the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival) Anticipation: Medium Overall Rating: Set in hyper-styled 1950s Normandy, France, Populaire‘s heroine Rose (François) has two choices in life: get married or become a secretary. The film is a simplistic and perhaps naive treatment of a woman’s lot in […]
Occasion: Girls’ Night Out Anticipation: Medium Overall rating: Tabu is a two part fairytale about loneliness, growing old burdened with regrets, forbidden love and a baby crocodile. In part 1, ‘Paradise Lost’, Pilar (Madruga), an attentive but lonely woman living in Lisbon, is concerned for the health of her elderly neighbour, eccentric Aurora (Moreira). Part 2, […]
