Drama

The rich human condition told with a straight face, this is the mother of all genres. So if it doesn't fit snugly anywhere else it's usually Drama...

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How To Have Sex (2023): Dir. Molly Manning Walker
Feat. Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Samuel Bottomley…; A vibrant and sometimes confronting portrait of youth binge culture that clings like day-glo lycra to three British teenage girls at a Greek resort. It won the Un Certain Regard at Cannes, a prize awarded to recognize young talent and to encourage innovative and daring works. Following "Cat Person" and…
May December (2023): Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton; Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman make a formidable double-act in this fascinating, multi-layered drama about an actress doing field research with the woman she is set to play in a movie – one vilified (and convicted) for her notorious romance with a seventh grader whom she later married. Inspired by a…
Priscilla (2023): Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen…; Sofia Coppola's delicate and understated adaptation of Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir about the stifling reality of being Mrs. Elvis Presley. Aussie it-boy Jacob Elordi especially impresses as Elvis who, at 6'5", towers over a diminutive Cailee Spaeny, but this only adds to the imbalance of power at the…
Blue Jean (2022): Dir. Georgia Oakley
Feat. Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Stacy Abalogun…; The story of a closeted lesbian P.E. teacher in Thatcher’s Britain that feels like it could have (and should have) been made in the early 1980's, but wasn’t. Under this shroud of conservatism, Rosy McEwen as Jean lives in Newcastle in constant negotiation with a culture that seems micro-aggressive at…
Shayda (2023): Feat. Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Selina Zahednia, Osamah Sami; This Australian drama filmed mostly in the Persian language is made something special by two magnetic actresses. Iranian émigré Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider) is almost upstaged by her six-year-old co-star as a mother and daughter forced to stay in a Melbourne women's refuge during the two weeks of the…
Scrapper (2023): Dir. Charlotte Regan
Feat. Harris Dickinson, Lola Campbell; A cheeky charmer set in East London that refreshingly leans away from the miseries of working-class life, inspired as it was by Taika Waititi's "Boy". Lola Campbell is terrific as a scrappy twelve-year-old living illegally on her own after her mother dies, only for her dead-beat Dad (Harris Dickinson,…
Jane Eyre (2011): Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga
Feat. Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell…; A delicate and atmospheric adaptation of the much-filmed Charlotte Bronte melodrama tragedy about a young governess who seals her tragic fate by falling deeply in love with her "unsuitable" employer. Some have found this version a little chilly but actor-of-the-moment Fassbender has the necessary charisma…

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