SHE WILL – Review by Margaret Barton-Fumo

Charlotte Colbert’s She Will slyly works against the type of horror championed by Executive Producer Dario Argento, in that it is a pointedly feminist work. Whereas Argento was notorious for using his own gloved hands to “murder” actresses onscreen, Colbert works to remedy the harm done by domineering, chauvinist directors who committed transgressions far greater than Argento and his infamous hands. At a time when the “Me Too” movement is starting to lose steam in the public eye, Colbert presents us with a story about how past violence against women can hold strong and continue to torment us for decades—even centuries—into the present.

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THE INNOCENTS – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

The film’s very title is less a statement of fact, then, than an active provocation. The widespread, often automatic fetishization of children as these pure vessels of innocence and purity is placed under Vogt’s cinematic microscope with extraordinary effect. Disturbing, intelligent and held together by a young cast of jaw-droppingly talented actors, The Innocents is a hard film to shake, but at its core one drenched in a spirit of respect for children and their autonomy that is far too rare.

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