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Film Drop // Widows by Steve McQueen

Alexandra Sara February 24, 2021

Directed by Turner prize and Oscar-winning Artist/Director Steve McQueen, we follow a group of women who are forced to pick up the criminal hot potato left by their recently deceased husbands.

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In Film Tags widows, steve mcqueen
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Film Drop // Beach Rats

Alexandra Sara February 21, 2021

The film, like Frankie, is short on words and captures a feeling more than a plot; the sensation of wistful, long summer days and nights where Frankie and his friends drift shirtless on beaches and park benches, getting high, watching girls and waiting for the days to pass.

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In Film, Netflix Tags Beach Rats, Harris Dickinson, Eliza Hittman
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Film Drop // It’s Only the End of the World / Juste la fin du monde

Alexandra Sara February 20, 2021

Based on the stage play by Jean-Luc Lagarce, this film by Xavier Dolan is about an award-winning French writer named Louis who returns to his family home for the first time in over a decade with the intention of telling them that he is dying.

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Film Drop // The Farewell

Alexandra Sara February 20, 2021

"Based on an actual lie", we follow Billi, an NY-based writer who moved to the US when she was six but whose grandmother "Nai Nai" still lives in China and is recently found to be dying of stage four lung cancer.

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In Film, Amazon Prime Tags The Farewell, luluwang, film review
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Film Drop // The Souvenir

Alexandra Sara February 20, 2021

The Souvenir by Joanna Hogg is a 2019 semi-autobiographical film that follows a shy yet ambitious young woman, played by Honor Swinton Byrne, as she tentatively begins film school in London in the 1980s.

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Film Drop | Mudbound

Alexandra Sara February 19, 2021

Mudbound is a powerful generational story of race, family, class and trauma in Jim Crow America, at a time when young men from all classes and races were returning from war to find that the normal rules that were suspended abroad, still applied back home in rural Mississippi.

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In Film, Netflix Tags Netflix, mudbound, deerees, maryjblige, careymulligan
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