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Tribeca Film Festival 2022

Festivals Reviews 

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE (Tribeca 2022) – Reviewed by Marilyn Ferdinand

Marilyn Ferdinand (Archived Contributor) , , , , , , , , ,

Latvian animator and director Signe Baumane’s My Love Affair with Marriage offers a loosely autobiographical accounting of the life and loves of Zelma (voice of Dagmara Dominczyk), a Latvian artist who finds that her romantic programming and the biochemical workings of her body conspire against her long-term marital happiness. The animation is brilliant and Baumane’s acute observations of human movement and moods move us through the emotional ups and downs of a story with which most of us will be able to identify.

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Festivals 

Girls to the Front at Tribeca FF 2022’s Retrospective Screenings – Alexandra Heller-Nicholas reports

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas , , , , , , , , ,

Running from the 8th to 19th of June, all eyes are cast as perhaps to be expected on the Tribeca Film Festival’s rich offerings of premiere screenings. But scratch the surface of the program and just as exciting is the superbly curated series of retrospective screenings, including a notable and diverse array that are either directed by women, or have women in central, significant production roles.

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News 

WEEK IN WOMEN: Tribeca FF 2022 opens with JLo docu HALFTIME – Brandy McDonnell reports

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New York’s 2022 Tribeca Film Festival will launch June 8 with the world premiere of Halftime at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Halftime is a new Netflix documentary film by director Amanda Micheli that follows global superstar Jennifer Lopez as she reflects on her milestones and evolution as an artist and navigates the second half of her career continuing to entertain, empower and inspire

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