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Magnificent Obsession: Di Marco & Picoli Patrol the Poison of Perfection Our conditioned notions regarding beauty standards maintains our insidious and unhealthy fixation with obtaining (or maintaining) those attributes which remain most culturally celebrated. Despite ameliorative messaging wielded as a...

The Blindness of Strangers: Dorabialski Stings the Storyteller “In the end, we’ll all become stories,” per Margaret Atwood, a sentiment which is ultimately at the metatextual heart of Agata the Writer, the sophomore narrative feature from Kuba Dorabialski. Born in...

The Penile Code: el-Toukhy Explores the Gendered Paradox of Liberation Something is certainly rotten in the state of Denmark following the country’s liberation from Nazi occupation in May el-Touky’s third feature Woman Unknown, a bleak, dismal portrait of women determined...

An Affair to Disremember: Pallaoro Explores the Unbearable Bleakness of Being Love is hardly a many-splendored thing in The Echo Chamber, the fourth feature directed by Andrea Palloro (and his first from a screenplay not originally conceived by himself). Based...