Contributor Alexandria Slater

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Review

Love According to Dalva

by Alexandria Slater

Belgian filmmaker Emmanuelle Nicot approaches the subject of child sexual abuse with great sensitivity in her debut feature.

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In Retrospect
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The Oscar Goes To...

Why Corsage deserves the Best Make-Up & Hairstyling Academy Award

by Alexandria Slater

Helene Lang and Maike Heinlein smartly utilise Sissi's personal styling to emphasise the ways in which she was repressed and subsequently rebelled.
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Festivals

Bruiser – first-look review

by Alexandria Slater

Miles Warren explores the dichotomy of nature vs nurture through a lost teenager’s longing for paternal guidance.
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Festivals

Prisoner’s Daughter – first-look review

by Alexandria Slater

Brian Cox plays a dying convict trying to free himself from the prison of his past through forgiveness of his daughter in Catherine Hardwicke’s formulaic family drama.
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Festivals

Love According to Dalva – first-look review

by Alexandria Slater

Emmanuelle Nicot paints an achingly beautiful portrait of friendship, recovery and identity through a young girl’s sexual abuse story.
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Sixties sexploitation swings back in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho

by Alexandria Slater

By dredging up harmful stereotypes from the past, the film undermines its post-#MeToo feminist narrative.

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