Managing to sidestep half-baked psychoanalysis and tired gender tropes, what Francois Ozon’s THE NEW GIRLFRIEND occasionally lacks in finesse it more than makes up for in depth.
Fashion and Festival Favourites: Alliance Française French Film Festival Announces 2015 Lineup
The Alliance Française French Film Festival will hit select Australian cinemas in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Byron Bay and Hobart from March 3 to April 21.
The Supercut: A Video Tribute to Cinema in 2014
We kick off our end of year coverage with a video, compiling 70 films released theatrically in 2014 into one 4-minute supercut.
Young & Beautiful
Teetering on the brink of realism and stock male fantasy, Ozon’s latest film actually succeeds in being an empathetic and nuanced exploration of a young woman’s attitudes regarding love and sex.
Female Sexuality in Recent Cinema
Recent releases Blue is the Warmest Color, Nymphomaniac and Young & Beautiful all devote a lot of screentime to the exploration of sex but it begs the question – how well-equipped are male directors to deal with such intimate depictions of female sexuality?