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The Girl With The Needle: Post-WWI Drama Lays Bare The Precarious Lives of Women

The Girl With The Needle: Post-WWI Drama Lays Bare The Precarious Lives of Women

By Liz Braun

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 4, 2024The Girl with The Needle, TIFF 24, Magnus von Horn, Line Langebek Knudsen, Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Joachim Fjelstrup, Danish, Drama, WWI, Black and white, Women's issues, Women in peril, Women's livesComment

Seven Winters in Tehran: Chilling Doc Exposes Horrors of Life for Women in Iran

Seven Winters in Tehran: Chilling Doc Exposes Horrors of Life for Women in Iran

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJanuary 2, 2024Seven Winters in Tehran, Docuementary, Iranian film, Human rights, Women in peril, Steffi Niederzoll, Reyhaneh Jabbari, Feyredoon JabbariComment

Men: Alex Garland's Countryside Horror Amps the Woman-in-Peril Scenario to Deranged

Men: Alex Garland's Countryside Horror Amps the Woman-in-Peril Scenario to Deranged

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekMay 19, 2022Countryside horror, Alex Garland, Men, Women in peril, Patriarchy gone mad, Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu Comment