After Love: The BRWC Review. By Alif Majeed. SPOILERS AHEAD! Long static shots at the beginning of a movie are not unusual, but it feels like these long tracking shots have recently been used to open many indie movies. Like if there is a glossary book of cliches for indie movies,
Young girls being forced to marry is a practice usually attributed to other countries. Knots: A Forced Marriage Story documents the stories of three American women forced to marry at young ages. Director Kate Ryan Brewer expertly balances their personal stories while enlightening the viewer on the issue of underage
Christian Petzold’s Undine is the film equivalent of mercury; it is difficult to pin down. As the film unfolds, it shapeshifts from drama, to romance, to allegory, to fantasy. Its mutability is precisely what makes it compelling. The mortar that holds everything together is Undine Wibeau (Paula Beer). Undine works
This drama film centers on Melanie (Stefania Lavie Owen) a teen about to graduate high school planning to go to USC to study medicine like her late father. Melanie and her mother Dawn (Lili Taylor) are shown to have a close relationship in the wake of Melanie’s father’s passing. For
Lizard: Review. By Julius Tabel. “Lizard” is a short film that presents what seems to be an everyday situation in an African Christian region. The viewer follows a girl that gets ejected from Sunday School and experiences excessive faith and terrible danger while seeming to see a lizard in her mind. “Lizard” is
