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At the beginning of director Isa Willinger’s career, cult-followed filmmaker Kira Muratova told her: “The truth is, women make the harsher films.”
This question weighed on Isa’s mind when she set out to make her documentary No Mercy. The film draws its inspiration from Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, about whom Isa wrote the book “Kira Muratova: Cinema of Subversion” a decade ago.… read more.
On this day in 2016, French filmmaker Julia Ducournau made her solo feature length debut with the critically acclaimed — but hugely controversial — Raw.
Julia’s feminist sensibilities as a director tackling themes of gender and transformation can be traced back to her earliest work, Junior, a short film that follows a student who starts shedding their skin after becoming sick.… read more.
Titane – the French spelling for the metal titanium –is a slasher flick which features no less than six murders in its first half-hour.
Watching writer/director Julia Ducournau’s new film wasn’t exactly a pleasurable experience for me. I frequently cringed, and had to force myself not to look away.… read more.