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troubled motherhoods (film: The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2021)

Maggie Gyllenhaal, an actress that I really like, now joins the respectable gallery of actors who pass on the other side of the camera and become directors. I am even happier to see that her debut film, both as a … Continue reading

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the favo(u)rite of the race to Oscars (film: The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)

I confess that Yorgos Lanthimos‘ films confuse me. Each one that I’ve seen approaches a well-known genre, starts from premises that seem familiar to us, as moviegoers with some experience, and gets totally elsewhere – in territories where the laws … Continue reading

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