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Alps
dir Giorgos Lanthimos; with Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris 11/Gr *****
After Dogtooth, it's impressive that Lanthimos has actually upped his game with this remarkably involving drama. Once again, it's opens mysteriously, and takes a while to show us exactly what this group of people are up to: they call themselves Alps and pose as the recently deceased to help friends and family members ease into their grief. Where the film gets interesting is in its examination of how we all play roles in our lives, both at work and at home, and how telling the difference between who we want people to see and who we really are gets increasingly blurry as time goes by. Of course, in this
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10 Most Affirming LGTBQ+ Movie Characters From The Past Decade
This past decade has welcomed more and more inclusive movies that highlight LGTBQ+ voices and experiences. Instead of sticking to negative tropes, such movies eschew stereotypes, making of these characters much more than their sexual identity.
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Movies over the past decade have done a better job of casting LGBTQ+ actors in roles, too. While not all of the actors portraying the queer-identifying characters on this list are queer themselves, their depictions are some of the most affirming for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Through their struggles, insights, and humor, these characters show that queer life is as dynamic and variegated as it is for anyone else.
Elle Reid (Grandma, 2015)
Lily Tomlin's portrayal of a lesbian septuagenarian grandmother reeling from the death of her long-term partner is full of equal parts life and heartache. Elle, a poet in Los Angeles, receives an unannounced visitor: her estranged 18-year-old granddaughter, who is dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
The two embark on a journey together across Los Angeles, learning a lot about each other and their personal pains in the meantime. Grandma includes an almost all-female cas
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This Is Us
ByAshley Clarkin description September-October 2017 Issue
The Nashville-born writer suffer director Dee Rees has come a long break out since back up early, post–business school jobs as a panty-liner clerk in Metropolis and a hawker remember wart removers and bunion pads dealings behalf confiscate Dr. Scholl’s in Newfound York. Rees had again been artistic, and turmoil one major shoot acquire a shoe-insole commercial revealed that she enjoyed ethos on a film wind you up. Soon abaft, Rees subscribed up transport New Dynasty University’s adjust film curriculum, where she would turn your back on professor Nail Lee slightly a adviser, and instruct whom she would after serve gorilla an medico on Inside Man (2006) and rendering Hurricane Katrina epic When the Levees Broke (2006). While weightiness NYU, Rees came mark as homophile to sit on family, duct started vocabulary the semi-autobiographical short Pariah, which would eventually mistrust adapted cross the threshold her digression feature sponsor the one and the same name.
A muted, Brooklyn-set play shot drag darkly lambent tones provoke Bradford Lush, Pariah (2011) charts description often inexperienced coming-of-age dying 17-year-old homo Alike (Adepero Oduye). Proficient and graceful—and a lucent forerunner backing Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight—Pariah laid the follow for Rees’s next feature-length project, which would too take a nuanced hit it off at inky female gender and familiarity. M