À ma soeur!
What a remarkable film. Anaïs, 12 is the younger, overweight sister to the more conventionally attractive Elena, 15. Left to themselves...


The Idea of a Lake
La Idea De Un Lago a 2016 film directed by Milagros Mumenthaler. Long shots with (supposedly) diagetic sound design are magnetic. I'm not...


The Beguiled
Anne Ross, my production designer, a couple of years ago told me, “You have to see The Beguiled. You need to make a new version of it or...


Reading between the lines.
I've heard this before. Andrew Davies setting scenes in the Bennet girl's bedroom, imagining what the women would talk about out of...


TV's Female Gaze
In an article in the LA Times, Meredith Blake gives examples of where women are directing, writing and performing from a female point of...


LOLITA - unscrutable and unknowable
I read Rebecca Bell-Metereau's The Three Faces of Lolita this morning, where she discusses Nabokov's original novel (and his possible...