Samantha Mitchell’s “RSVP” Incluvie Film Fest Review
“There’s always something you can do…to make people feel like they’re welcome”

From the Lido to Venice via the Canal Grande: reflections on the lagoon, architecture, facades of churches and secular buildings, under the warm sunset of a winter afternoon. Cinema as accelerated painting. By train until the exploration of the tiny daily life, under an incandescent light. The journey stops between the trees of Bois d'Arcy.
“There’s always something you can do…to make people feel like they’re welcome”
True crime media is notoriously obsessed with the “missing white woman” trope, and yet the vast majority of American murder victims are male, and well over half are people of color.
An animated reboot based on the book of the same name, with differences from the live-action movie of the same name.
This live-action Barbie movie brings strong feminism and topics about blondes.
A few episodes in, I realized the most prominent theme of In The Long Run wasn't culture, race or even finding independence--but the idea of belonging.