Tag: LGBTQ
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Jimpa, queer identity across the generations
Jimpa is essentially a story about family and identity. It’s about how we label ourselves and each other. Sophie Hyde directed the film, which is a reflection of her personal family life.
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Miss You, Love You and the anger of grief
Miss You, Love You puts two strangers together planning a funeral and watches as they work through grief, anger, resentment and loss by taking it out on each other.
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Blue Jean, a closeted lesbian in 1980 Scotland
Blue Jean came to my attention in the flurry of publicity after season one of The Testaments ended. I learned that Lucy Holliday, who played Daisy in The Testaments, won the 2023 BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress in a Film for Blue Jean. That sounded worth checking out.
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Slip, Zoe Lister-Jones in multiple realities
Slip is Zoe Lister-Jones all the way. She wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy/fantasy/drama series. I thought it was excellent overall, and her performance as a woman slipping through various universes was outstanding.
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My Dearest Señorita, a sensitive intersex story
My Dearest Señorita (Mi querida señorita) tells a carefully nonjudgmental story about an intersex individual growing up in Spain in the 1980s and 1990s. It is based on a previous 1972 movie. Moving the story to 1999 serves to show how little progress had been made in Spain regarding intersexuality.
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100 Nights of Hero, a fun feminist romp
100 Nights of Hero takes a feminist look at the Scheherazade story and turns it into a fairy tale about women’s power, women’s love, and women’s stories. It’s a fun watch for women, but I’m not sure men will enjoy it.
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How to Die Alone review
How to Die Alone, created and written by Natasha Rothwell also stars Natasha Rothwell. It’s a comedy about a single 35 year old woman who works at an airport. She thinks she’s all alone in the world.
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Deadloch, season 2 review
Deadloch, season 2, moves from Tasmania to a fictional small town close to Darwin that is teeming with crocs. The unlikely cop duo of straight-arrow Dulcie (Kate Box) and foul-mouthed Eddie (Madeleine Sami) are there to figure out what happened to Eddie’s former partner Bushy. They solve some other crimes in the process.
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Anniversary, when democracy dies
Anniversary tells a family story. It covers 5 years of “The Change,” a period when democracy dies and authoritarianism takes over. By focusing on one family, we see the human toll. There are some spoilers ahead.