Contributor Sophie Monks Kaufman

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Festivals

Ahed’s Knee – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid serves up a spiky, intelligent drama about conflict and reconciliation.
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Short Stuff

Watch Symbiosis, an animated short film about sex and jealousy

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The French-Hungarian co-production, made by artist Nadja Andrasev, is on the longlist for this year’s Oscars.
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Review

Shirley

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Josephine Decker’s stunning anti-biopic of author Shirley Jackson offers a treatise on female creativity and camaraderie.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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An open letter to Freddie Flintoff

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A personal thank you to the former cricketer whose new documentary, Living with Bulimia, dispels the stigma around the disorder.
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Festivals

A new animated short explores sexual envy from a female perspective

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Hungarian animator Nadja Andrasev reveals how personal experience informed her sensual new film Symbiosis.
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Review

Real

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

A couple struggles to reconcile their new romance with their emotional baggage in Aki Omoshaybi’s directorial debut.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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In Praise Of

Why I love Alain Delon’s performance in Rocco and his Brothers

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The French screen idol is at his most open and vulnerable in Luchino Visconti’s 1960 crime drama.
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Long Read

The Case for Art

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

As lockdown in the UK eases, Sophie Monks Kaufman reflects on the value of cultural exchange on a personal and societal level.
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Meet the women tackling racism in UK film and TV

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Nisha Parti and Indira Varma discuss their experiences in the industry, and why they’re optimistic for change.
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Interviews

Eliza Hittman: ‘I sat down with abortion providers to try to understand the story I wanted to tell’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The writer/director on how first-hand research informed her ‘poetic odyssey’, Never Rarely Sometimes Always.

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