Our penultimate episode checks out a recent hit, the Colman Domingo led, awards favourite #Rustin.
We'll be joined by film journalist @nataliaalbin.bsky.social to dissect - Monday 7th July
in lieu jacques audiard calling spanish a languange of “developing countries” and the “poor and the migrants” and his main actress attacking the team behind the one actual latin american film yesterday, I’d like to share my latest substack open.substack.com/pub/invernad...
feminism as a weapon of misogyny: what we can learn from blake lively, amber heard: open.substack.com/pub/invernad...
honestly, nothing against SG in this particularly at all, or Karla and the cast, just thought the film was unfortunately terrible for the groups it pretends to care about.
In its lowest moments, Emilia Pérez uses Mexico’s femicides and disappearances as an easy way out, a narrative trigger for characters. But overall, Mexico is used as an aesthetic backdrop to situate a project and make it appear more ambitious in international cinema. Audiard has no real interest in Mexico, the problems it faces, the language, the diction, the culture, or what drug trafficking and violence truly mean in the country. This is not only implied in his interviews, but it’s also evident in the script and production, with cultural references that make no sense and nonexistent locations. Of course, the film was made by a French crew in France; the music even uses the word "excitada" to mean “excited” (reader, excitada means horny). This is not writing that seeks rhythmic freedom through a lack of knowing the language, as Audiard has claimed. It’s lazy writing. Perhaps it can be justified by saying ‘it’s fantasy,’ but I find it negligent to use the pain of a country and then defend lack of research with such a weak argument.
well Emilia Pérez is now on Netflix so.
new substack about the gender reading gap and how it's part of a wider set of problems (and therefore solutions) for the state of young men invernadero.substack.com/p/men-arent-...
My film reviews can be found over at Girls at Films, a wonderful magazine that focuses on the voices of women - both in film journalism and filmmakers girlsatfilms.com?s=natalia+al...
And some fun media collections of the art I enjoy during the seasons, here's my personal favourite: autumn. invernadero.substack.com/p/autumn-med...
I've also written about the elusive Unlikeable Female Protagonist in contemporary literature and why it's become counterproductive and kind of annoying invernadero.substack.com/p/the-lost-p...
I suppose first thing's first. Some writing. This is my substack where I write about film, tv, books and culture. I've written about the Lonely Girls (™) of Sofia Coppola and what they say about our generation of women. invernadero.substack.com/p/the-privil...
the legacy of every publication and editor having a twitter account makes it so difficult to leave
