TellTellingCinema: Women, Patriarchy, Toxic Masculinity
TellTellingCinema is a non-cyclical series of podcasts devoted to cinema related issues. In the first episode I discuss the exploitation of women (and not only) in cinema (and not only).
TellTellingCinema is a non-cyclical series of podcasts devoted to cinema related issues. In the first episode I discuss the exploitation of women (and not only) in cinema (and not only).
“Beautiful Things” by Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasina cannot be watched like a regular movie. One participates in it – as in a ritual, devout contemplation, or trance with art.
“Planet of the Humans” exceeded the threshold of 6 million views and grew a thick layer of controversy around itself. Although Moore has accustomed viewers…
The film by the Belgian artist makes us aware of the scale and opens our eyes to what we all perfectly know and effectively learned to ignore – to disregard of human rights in the name of the artificial capital-driven needs.
Amjad Abu Alala creates a portrait of a conservative society in which the hypocrisy is clearly visible and the threshold of freedom cannot be crossed so easily.
The film by the South African director can be seen as a lost work of blaxploitation from the 70s. There is some charm in it, but also some doubt.
The Sun Above Me Never Sets is a film which is much closer to young, independent American cinema from Sundance than to Russian filmmakers, even though it sounds like a Yakut travesty of the film How I Ended This Summer by Alexei Popogrebsky from 2010.
The new film by the two-time winner of the Golden Palm includes not only the story of an employee who falls into the trap of working under a private franchise (unwittingly giving up his employee rights to “work for himself”), but also a classic family drama.
Superficially, one cannot find any mistakes: the technical performance, image and sound quality, fact-based script or theme – inhumanly timed women in Algeria of 1997, when religious fundamentalism was becoming stronger – are pretty solid. But exactly this perfection is something that completely breaks the film’s credibility. The heroines of Papicha are not only written as in the American film, but also were filmed as so.
Ad Astra presents the “near future” of human civilization, when the colonization of nearby planets will become a way to acquire valuable resources and expansion of space appropriated by man, the expansion of capitalism.