Tag: Film criticism
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City of God: Cinema as Social Commentary
Lydia Collier-Wood’s review of Mierelle and Lund’s City of God engages with social inequality, violence, and cinematic realism.
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Céline Sciamma is Ovid for the Modern-Day Feminist: Mythology and Misogyny in ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’
Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a visually striking and metaphorically rich artifact of contemporary French cinema. Mariela Brown thoughtfully reviews the film, tracing its common themes of love and patriarchal oppression.
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‘Every baby needs a da-da-daddy’: Andrew Dominik’s Blonde
Georgia Smith explores themes of gender, sex, and the self in a review of the 2022 film “Blonde”, which tells a fictionalized account of Marilyn Monroe’s life.
Retrospect Journal 