Since 2012, same sex couples can legally get married in France. Five years later, director Fx Goby wanted to meet the women and men that decided to embrace an institution that had rejected them for so long. Meet bakers Raoul and Roger, executive businesswomen Veronique and Vanda, proud mums Gloria and Clarence and young active couple Vincent and Mickaël, for whom access to marriage simply changed their lives. This moving portrait of regular people highlights the one thing that is often forgotten when debating over same sex marriage, love.
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.
It’s passionately protective of the women mentioned in the story or appearing on screen. Just like the article and the #MeToo movement, the film could help a trapped person find the courage to fight back.
This list was made with the intention of celebrating comedic craft and a love of seeing more women of colour and newcomers on the scene.
Word of mouth has been incredible, but the film's faults cannot be ignored.
It’s easy to dismiss Joel and Ethan Coen for writing from the world they build from outside the box of overarching Hollywood stereotypes, but their inability to compromise their collective vision is precisely what makes the simplistic nature of their world-building and characters so brilliant. It’s also what led Fargo to collect seven Oscar nominations and two wins for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress for Frances McDormand’s brilliant portrayal of the sincere, motherly detective whose wholesome demeanor seizes the day over the selfishness, corruption and evil of the men who don’t comprehend that there’s more to life than a little money.
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.
