We Are a Lady: Women, Punk and Islam (two films)
Nada Mansour He directs this choral series which though exists as an endorsement Three BAFTAs Access to Spanish television has been slow since its premiere in the spring of 2021 on British Channel 4. Filmin is now presenting the six episodes of its first season (the only one so far), although everything indicates that there will be a second. One given critical and public success.
The production tells in a comic tone LThe story of five young men from London, all Muslims, Second and third generations of immigrants from different countries (India, Iraq…). The peculiarity is that four of them, Seera, Aisha, Mumtaz and Basma, make up a Punk band looking for a new component: guitar player. In Casting, Amina is guided more by her heart than her head, who will have to challenge the conservative environment that surrounds her in order to be part of the band.
“We are lady parts” he assumes A twist on other similar immigration stories in Londonin the sense that it delves deeper into An effort to break stereotypes. Starting with an all-female lead cast, but also with the soundtrack, with songs created specifically for the series or LGTB + plots.
Redemption by Chantal Ackermann (two films)
Few outside the cinematic milieu have heard of him Chantal Ackermann Even the prestigious magazine Sight & Sound He chose his “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” as the best film of all time. The film, which was shown in Cannes fortnight in 1975, was the French director’s third.
In just over three hours, Ackerman narrates the ups and downs of Jane Dillmann (played by Delphine Seyrig), A young widow with a son: While the boy is at school, she does the housework and works as an afternoon prostitute. Far from focusing explicitly on the sordid aspects of this terrible circumstance, Ackerman did so on the hero’s daily routine, A New Perspective considers this work a benchmark for feminism. ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ has arrived at Filmin remastered and at a time when world cinema is in the midst of a debate about The importance of being open to the stories women tell.
Hilma the Invisible Painter (2 films)
Recently, there are many documentaries, series and films that explore The consequences of the fact that the story was not only carried out by men, but also told. The question boils down to a certain way in the art world, where A large number of silent women began to be admired, either by experts and critics, or by fellow artists. The list is long. Now you can see the Madrid Gallery Leonora Carrington who made up a large part of the surrealists but his work is not recognized at the same level until today in practice.
This is also the case Hilma af Klimt, whom the latest studies clearly place as a key figure and, above all, a pioneer in the emergence of abstraction. Long before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich, it was present in block letters in all pamphlets.
The daughter of a wealthy Swedish family, Hilma af Klint was a unique person, socially out of touch. This circumstance and, above all, her interest in esotericism and theosophy – which had such an effect on her paintings – immediately alienated her from painting.
Two films that restore the personality of this mysterious artist until recently The documentary “Hilma … Beyond the Visible”, and starting this week, with the “biography” of Lasse Hallströmknown as the director, among other films, for “Chocolat” or “Who loves Gilbert grapes?” Lena Olin plays Hilma.
“Earth According to Philomena Cunk” (Netflix)
Charlie Brooker who overwhelmed half the world with his dystopian series but in the end is just as dreamy ‘black mirror’, He turns in jest with “The Earth According to Philomena Conc.” It is a “parody” (i.e., A mockumentary) by actress Diane Morgan He tells “in his own way” world historyFrom different points of view: religions, wars, the industrial revolution … Morgan plays Philomena, a kind of mix between Mary Beard and Borat that tests the patience of guests, professors and eminent experts from the best universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Under the pretense of humor, the series exudes acidity and criticism.
‘Kleo’: The spy who fell in love with Stephen King (Netflix)
This Netflix series may feel like déjà vu. In 1989 Berlin, a Stasi spy with little trouble for killing people is betrayed, imprisoned and after getting out she seeks revenge. Nothing he hasn’t already appeared in Killing Eve, Good Bye Lenin, and Nikita…but no, despite recurring elements in movies and TV series, Kleo is surprising and captivating. Part of the “error” falls into The protagonist, Gila Haas. The actress managed to give her character an aura that made Stephen King himself fall in love, which praised the production on Twitter and gave it a huge audience boost.
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