Give Me Pity!
Amanda Kramer recreates a 1970s-style variety TV special to comment on a certain kind of diva celebrity, but the results are tediously self-indulgent, clueless about camp affect, and open to claims of disingenuousness.
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Posted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 29, 2022 | Festivals, Rotterdam |
Amanda Kramer recreates a 1970s-style variety TV special to comment on a certain kind of diva celebrity, but the results are tediously self-indulgent, clueless about camp affect, and open to claims of disingenuousness.
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 28, 2022 | Festivals, Rotterdam |
This fictionalized portrait of a trans woman’s emotional journey towards selfhood tries to cover too many bases in the psychological process, but Raphaëlle Perez’s sympathetic performance and the film’s overall sensitivity make up for some of its flaws.
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 27, 2022 | Festivals, Rotterdam |
A pleasant though minor queer-skewed indie slice-of-life look at Millenials in Chile, using a ghost device as a way of concretizing the niggling concerns within a struggling actor’s subconscious.
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 22, 2022 | CANNES MARCHE' DU FILM, Festivals, Sundance |
A female bodybuilder tries her hand as an escort in order to pay for her steroids and supplements in this beautifully calibrated, exceptionally well-played feature that digs deep inside its characters, forcing audiences to upend initial conceptions while weaving a memorable, lingering spell.
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 21, 2022 | Berlin, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, New images from Ukraine, Sundance |
Notwithstanding truly impressive visuals by D.P. Sviatoslav Bulakovskyi, “Klondike” underwhelms with its unilluminating look at the Donbas region conflict in Ukraine, seen through a reductionist gendered lens where women nurture and men achieve nothing but destruction.
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