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LE PUPILLE – Review by Nadine Whitney

February 27, 2023March 5, 2023 Nadine Whitney alba rohrwacher, Alfonso Cuarón, Alice Rohrwacher, Carmela Covino, Le Pupille. short films

Directed by Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) and produced by Alfonso Cuarón, Le Pupille reunites Rohrwacher with writer Carmela Covino and star of Happy as Lazzaro, Alba Rohrwacher. It is WWII and a group of orphans live in a ramshackle convent in Italy. The whole county is suffering a famine because of the war. The Church, usually able to depend on money from the faithful is facing poverty, and the hope of Madre Superiora Fioralba (Alice Rohrwacher) is that the annual Nativity Scene will bring in some much-needed funds

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AWFJ Presents CORPO CELESTE – Review by Erin Trahan

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 Erin Trahan Alice Rohrwacher, awfj presents, Corpo Celeste, Film Movement, Hélène Louvart, Pasqualina Scuncia, Salvatore Cantalupo, Yle Vianello

If a cinematic canon were to prioritize an adolescent girl’s point of view, Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste from 2011 would top the list. The first of Rohrwacher’s now several features as writer-director of fiction, Corpo Celeste succeeds as a highly original coming-of-age story set among worn out but still potent Catholic traditions.

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MOVIE OF THE WEEK July 22, 2022: SKIES OF LEBANON

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 Jennifer Merin alba rohrwacher, beirut, betsy bozdech, Cate Marquis, Chloe Mazlo, Dekanalog, french films, jennifer merin, leslie combemale, loren king, Marilyn Ferdinand., motw, Movie of the Week, nell minow, Pam Grady, sandie angulo chen, Skies of Lebanon, susan wloszczyna, Wajdi Mouawad, Yacine Badday

Quirky and poignant, creative and heartfelt, Chloe Mazlo’s drama Skies of Lebanon is a singular achievement in inventive filmmaking. As she tells the story of Alice (Alba Rohrwacher) — a young Swiss woman who leaves home in the 1950s and makes her way to Beirut, where she falls in love, marries, and raises a family — Mazlo serves up a unique mix of tone and style that’s likely to both charm and move viewers.

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Opening Jul 18 – 24, 2022 – Margaret Barton-Fumo reports

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 Margaret Barton-Fumo female centric films, female directed films, opening films

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists highlights movies made by and about women. With a vigilant eye toward current releases, we maintain an interactive record of films that are pertinent to our interests. Be they female-made or female-centric productions, they are films that represent a wide range of women’s stories and present complex female characters. As such, they are movies that will most likely be reviewed on AWFJ.org and will qualify for consideration for our annual EDA Awards, celebrating exceptional women working in film behind and in front of the camera.

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MURINA – Review by Diane Carson

July 12, 2022July 16, 2022 Diane Carson Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, croatian films, Danica Curcic, Gracija Filipovic, Hélène Louvart, Leon Lucev, martin scorsese, Murina

First time Croatian co-writer/director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović demonstrates a mature, profound insight into human psychology, male and female, young and middle-aged, in her feature film debut Murina. Set on the Adriatic coast, the family’s Croatian island home isolates seventeen-year-old Julija from the more enticing, liberated lives she observes as party boats visit their blue-water cove and rocky beach.

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MURINA – Review by Jennifer Green

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 Jennifer Green Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, croatian films, Danica Curcic, Gracija Filipovic, Hélène Louvart, Leon Lucev, martin scorsese, Murina

Executive produced by Martin Scorsese and winner of the 2021 Camera d’Or in Cannes for first-time feature director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Murina is a slow-churning, disquieting tale of a young woman’s revelation that her life could have been entirely different than what it is, and her empowerment to change her future.

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THE LOST DAUGHTER – Susan Granger

December 22, 2021December 23, 2021 Susan Granger Dakota Johnson, jessie buckley, maggie gyllenhaal, motw, Movie of the Week, Olivia Colman, the lost daughter

One great blessing of the current trend toward diversity and inclusion is that Netflix green-lit this scathingly honest psychological exploration of the ambivalence of motherhood, trusting actress Maggie Gyllenhaal to make her auspicious directing debut unraveling its psychological complexity.

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THE LOST DAUGHTER – Review by Diane Carson

December 15, 2021December 16, 2021 Diane Carson Dakota Johnson, jessie buckley, maggie gyllenhaal, motw, Movie of the Week, Olivia Colman, the lost daughter

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has given many fine performances, including Secretary, The Kindergarten Teacher, and the daring television series The Deuce for which she produced twenty-five episodes. Now as director of her first film, The Lost Daughter, Gyllenhaal advances her resume with a courageous, provocative immersion into the psyche of Leda, a middle-aged English professor on a writing holiday in Greece.

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MOVIE OF THE WEEK December 17: THE LOST DAUGHTER

December 11, 2021December 15, 2021 Jennifer Merin betsy bozdech, Cate Marquis, Dakota Johnson, jennifer merin, jessie buckley, leslie combemale, loren king, maggie gyllenhaal, Marilyn Ferdinand., motw, Movie of the Week, nell minow, Olivia Colman, Pam Grady, sandie angulo chen, sherin nicole, susan wloszczyna, the lost daughter

A meditation on the tension between motherhood and personal identity, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s feature directorial debut The Lost Daughter — adapted from Elena Ferrante’s same-named novel — is frank in its admission that, for all of its rewards, parenting can be a pretty rough gig. No one knows that more than Leda (Olivia Colman, in a stellar performance), whose life choices come back to haunt her during what’s intended to be a relaxing Greek vacation.

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THE LOST DAUGHTER – Review by Wendy Ide

September 18, 2021December 18, 2021 Wendy Ide Dakota Johnson, jessie buckley, maggie gyllenhaal, motw, Movie of the Week, Olivia Colman, the lost daughter

On a solo holiday to a Greek Island, literature professor Leda (Olivia Colman) finds herself both fascinated and repelled by the brash extended family that shares her local beach, encroaching on her space and hijacking her attention. When a child from the family goes missing, it is Leda, level-headed in the crisis, who finds her. But this act invites unbidden memories of her own decisions as a mother, choices that she wrestles with even now, nearly 20 years later.

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Anna Chi's The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu is a lighthearted look at intergenerational dynamics, but takes time to tackle significant issues like immigration policies and racial and sexual identity prejudices too. Read @AprilMac's review: https://awfj.org/blog/2023/03/18/the-disappearance-of-mrs-wu-review-by-april-neale/

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#ShazamFuryOfTheGods didn't set the box office on fire this weekend, but what did @nadine13am think of the #DCU superhero sequel? Read her review now: https://awfj.org/blog/2023/03/16/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-review-by-nadine-whitney/

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THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT on @netflix casts a beautiful and emotional spell, proving some things are impossible only until you believe they're not. I enjoyed the marvelous animation, script, and talented voice cast. More in my @AWFJ review. https://awfj.org/blog/2023/03/17/the-magicians-elephant-review-by-valerie-kalfrin/

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From John Wick to The Wire and beyond, Lance Reddick was an actor who elevated every production he was involved with. A fierce talent gone way too soon at just 60. #RIP

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