Valeria (17) is an introverted teenager who likes to dance alone. Her parents take her to the family farmhouse to celebrate her grandparents’ golden wedding. In this place she meets her cousin Sol (16), whom she had not seen for years. Valeria and Sol share the same room for a week in which Valeria must face her sexual awakening amid the repression of her parents and she will discover a dark secret that her family hides in those lands.
Ruben Östlund muses about his characters, “As soon as you get close to a person, you see them as just another human being”. It is widely recognized that aboard the luxury yacht in ‘Triangle of Sadness’, the different groups of people represent a small society as a commentary on classism and gender binaries.
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.
Seriously, and this is coming from someone who was extremely skeptical before giving it a watch. I assumed the show would be painfully boring, but one of the show's strongest qualities is you needn't know anything about the lore to get invested in it.
The highly anticipated Marvel superhero movie of the year displays important themes of loss, loneliness, and change.
I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.
Amid the ongoing debate surrounding Christa Pike’s death sentence, watching East of Eden, which shows that women can be monstrous too, is definitely refreshing.
