Female Film Critics 24/375
It’s absolutely impossible not to wonder how much of I Blame Society — a vicious, delicious sendup of Hollywood bullshit — is merely filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat straight-up fantasizing about violent retribution on the industry that never misses an opportunity to fail women both onscreen and behind the camera. Write what you know? Hoo boy.
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We find ourselves in a critical space where words like “mockumentary”, “#MeToo”, and “horror-comedy” seem like unavoidable go-tos, which while not exactly inaccurate, somehow feel collectively a little too milquetoast when it comes to the quite dark and unequivocally magical feat that Gillian Wallace Horvat has accomplished with this low-budget indie treasure.
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Documentary filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat carved out a career with shorts about classics such as High Noon and The Bells of St. Mary’s, as well as Hollywood legends such as Milos Forman, Frank Capra, Cary Grant, Orson Welles, and Maureen O’Hara. Her new satirical mockumentary I Blame Society attempts to uncork her rage at producers who mispronounce “intersectionality,” call her a “nice girl,” and offer women so-called opportunities by filming their buddies’ scripts.
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