‘Girls On Wire’ Review: Vivian Qu’s Genre Hybrid Is A Surprisingly Gritty Study Of Chinese Lives In The Margins – Berlin Film Festival
Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid is a surprisingly gritty study of Chinese lives in the margins – Berlin Film Festival ...
Sisterhood, Survival and Stunt Work Explored in Vivian Qu’s Berlin Competition Film ‘Girls on Wire’: ‘I Let the Emotions Flow’
Berlin competition film 'Girls on Wire' explores sisterhood, survival and stunt work, following two cousins navigating ...
‘Islands’ Review: A Gripping Tennis Noir That Feels Like ‘Challengers’ by Way of Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith meets Challengers in a film about a Canary Islands resort tennis pro who gets involved in the ...
An Abortion Scene Gets Theater Audiences Talking, and Fainting
The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing ...
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Cinema Without Borders: Fatal Attraction—Babygirl
A friend described Halina Reijn’s Babygirl as the Basic Instinct for 2025. However, a couple of weeks after having watched it, I am still wondering what the hullabaloo over the picture has been all ...
Book Review: ‘Looking at Women Looking at War,’ by Victoria Amelina
The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina compiled stories of women resisting the Russian invasion. After she was killed, ...
‘Sirens Call’ Review: A Radical Film Combining Merfolk Mythology and Political Documentary
Miri Ian Gossing and Lina Sieckmann’s feature debut 'Siren's Call' walks a fine line between fiction and reality.
‘Girls on Wire’ Review: A Sensitive but Unsteady Portrait of Chinese Generational Trauma and Sisterhood
In Vivian Qu's third feature, two estranged cousins confront old wounds after they are reunited under dangerous and dramatic ...