
The story follows five girls in their thirties, close friends from childhood. They grew up in the suburbs, sharing every moment of growing up. As life often does, their interests took them in different directions, and their friendship suffered consequences. However, after a long time, they get together on the occasion of the wedding of one of them.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
"A Drowning Man" (2017) explores the unseen aspects of the Refugee Crisis. In, 15 far-too-short minutes, viewers are given a detailed snapshot of what it's like for a refugee to drown in the waters of poverty and otherness while trying to navigate a land whose promise has worn off, and only 'strange' remains.
Women who pray together, play together. Very rarely would I describe a story about a group of punk rockers as “whimsical”, but such an engaging array of visual and comedic components make this stand-out new series the star that it is.
The Franke kids seemingly lived a normal life, until their mom met the infamous Jodi Hilderbrandt.