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  • 6 days ago | slantmagazine.com | William Repass

    Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire is less concerned with shedding light on its subject—the under-translated spouse of poet and Martiniquais politician Aimé Césaire—than with the quandaries involved in attempting to do so.

  • 3 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | William Repass

    Kana (Kawai Yumi), the protagonist of Desert of Namibia, doesn’t feel the emotions demanded of her in a society that measures her worth in relation to men. We first see the young laser hair-removal technician in a relationship with Honda (Kanichiro), who treats her as a dependent and for whom she feels no love. Her mother is Chinese, but, having grown up in Japan, Kama speaks only a few words of her mother’s native tongue, aggravating her sense of alienation.

  • 1 month ago | slantmagazine.com | William Repass

    With Invention, director Courtney Stephens and writer-actor Callie Hernandez tell a very “American” story.

  • 2 months ago | slantmagazine.com | William Repass

    In the 2010s, a coalition of farmers and eco-activists declared Notre-Dame-des-Landes, a commune in western France, a Zone to Defend (Z.A.D.) and occupied the region to block the construction of an airport. Over the next decade, they resisted multiple attempts by the state to evict them, attracting supporters in the tens of thousands, until Emmanuel Macron yielded to their demands in 2018.

  • 2 months ago | slantmagazine.com | William Repass

    Fleur Fortuné’s near-future-set feature-length directorial debut, The Assessment, prods at current-day anxieties around having children amid a recrudescence of fascism and dress rehearsals for the climate apocalypse. Even as these two forces refuse to recognize each other’s authority, they skip into the future hand in hand.

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