Well-to-do bourgeois, highly respectable in appearance, Jacques Etienne, his wife, Jacqueline and their two eighteen-year-old children, Stéphane and Bénédicte, lead a peaceful and rather boring life in the vast family home. But everything explodes when Bénédicte brings home Sweety, a young girl completely foreign to their sanitized world, whose innocent face hides Machiavellian designs that she will immediately strive to accomplish in the square. In turn, she will seduce all the members of the family and make them discover, not without ulterior motives, physical pleasure, allowing them to satisfy their most secret desires.
'Yes, God, Yes (2019)' is a coming-of-age tale about a Christian teenage girl discovering her sexuality, the turbulence that comes with it from within herself, and the judgment from those around her.
This list was made with the intention of celebrating the craft. I love seeing more women of colour on this list than before and more newcomers on the scene as well!
For the most part, 'Sweet Girl' recycles tired hyper masculine revenge tropes, but a surprise twist in the end turns it into a female-centric revenge film.
Like millions around the world, I've been waiting four years for the renowned #SnyderCut. I'll never forget sitting in the theater on opening night, witnessing a CGI mouth on Henry Cavill's face about five seconds into Justice League. That's a thing of nightmares if I must say. Anyways, right then and there, I knew I desperately needed Zack Snyder's film.
The new biopic 'Elvis' highlights the beginning and end of the career of this rock and roll legend. The audience is taken on this journey knowing the tragic ending but not so much about what led him there. A large topic of discussion is the influences on Elvis that made him who he was as a singer, musician, and performer, which were blues, gospel, and country. Many of the songs that rose him to fame were songs by Black artists he heard growing up in primarily Black settings.
