Kate Jinx

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Kate Jinx |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

It’s an all too familiar sight: a daughter in a rush, trying to get off the phone with her probing mother. Early on in Payal Kapadia’s sensuous, incandescent second feature All We Imagine as Light, we see Anu (Divya Prabha), a young nurse trying to wrap up such a call, fibbing that she must return to work: “Of course surgeries happen at night! As if a patient’s heart will wait!” But it’s her own heart and those of the two other women the film follows that are in a state of limbo.

Sep 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Kate Jinx |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James

An Iranian film about a widow defying post-revolution restrictions and finding love, and Demi Moore in a body-horror film aimed at unreal beauty standards “When will they leave us be?” asks Mahin (Lili Farhadpour) in the potent, warm-hearted Iranian film My Favourite Cake (Keyke mahboobe man). She’s referring to the morality police who, during a routine raid in a public park, targeted a woman wearing an improperly worn hijab.

Jul 25, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Kate Jinx |Malcolm Knox |Jackson Ryan |Royce Kurmelovs

Jane Schoenbrun’s instant cult film about the discovery of the authentic self, and Disney’s fictionalised series about teen friendship and the murder of a 14-year-old Jane Schoenbrun’s surreal, crepuscular films have an uncanny ability to get under your skin. Their second feature, I Saw the TV Glow, so lodged itself in my thoughts after the first viewing that I went back for a second only two days later.

May 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Kate Jinx |Laura Tingle |Kate Manne |Katherine Wilson

Frederick Wiseman’s four-hour documentary of a French family’s celebrated restaurant, and Alonso Ruizpalacios’s immigrant drama set in a Manhattan grill “Cuisine is not the movies,” remarks Michel Troisgros, quoting his grandfather in Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros. “This is for real.” Our cultural appetite for cooking on screen may not be new, but right now the offering feels full to bursting.

Mar 21, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Kate Jinx |Sean Kelly |Russell Marks |Ceridwen Spark

Alice Rohrwacher’s tale of love and graverobbery is transcendent, while Wim Wenders delivers a steady, meditative film from the Tokyo streets Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher’s latest feature is pure melancholic magic. Premiering in competition at Cannes last year, La Chimera is that rare jewel of a film where watching it once is enough but repeat viewings are ever more rewarding; I’ve seen it three times across as many festivals, with each experience offering something new.