
Todd Solondz: The home as a battlefield in Happiness and Life During Wartime
In Happiness (1998), the ever-smiling Trish (Cynthia Stevenson), in her neat kitchen, is strongly reminiscent of the female ideal as…
In Happiness (1998), the ever-smiling Trish (Cynthia Stevenson), in her neat kitchen, is strongly reminiscent of the female ideal as…
In one of the first sequences of Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale (Batoru rowaiaru, 2000), a group of boisterous pupils on…
Odd Obsession is a film about ageing, manipulation and sexual games.
The weight of memory has long been portrayed as an onerous facet of life, and in Wong Kar-wai’s 1997 film…
Long before the box office submitted to the inevitable adaptation of E. L. James’ mummy porn juggernaut, another altogether more…
Coming-of-age stories in which a young person comes to terms with their sexuality are very common in LGBT cinema and…