Little Women (2019): An Adaptation Done Right

Little Women (2019): An Adaptation Done Right

Little Women (2019) is my new favorite queer feminist film. The writer and director, Greta Gerwig, perfectly encapsulates the feeling of ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’ and that’s what makes this period film shine. For an adaption of a one...
Brooklyn (2015): Home is Where Your Heart is

Brooklyn (2015): Home is Where Your Heart is

As much as it may appear to be, the movie Brooklyn (2015) is not primarily about the city Brooklyn or a girl named Brooklyn. It is, however, based on a novel by Colm Tóibín which is titled Brooklyn. This film is about an Irish girl named Eilis, played by Saoirse...
A Newcomer’s Guide to La Nouvelle Vague: Issue #4

A Newcomer’s Guide to La Nouvelle Vague: Issue #4

Issue number four of A Newcomer’s Guide to La Nouvelle Vague is here! In this issue, we begin with Agnes Varda’s 1965 Le Bonheur/Happiness, which explores the dark underbelly of the image of happiness. Next, the 1966 Un Homme et Une Femme/A Man and a Woman,...
Une étudiante d’aujourd’ hui / A Modern Coed

Une étudiante d’aujourd’ hui / A Modern Coed

I am fascinated by the 1950-60’s culture — everything about it, from the way they dressed, the hairstyles, the dancing, even their furniture. Compared to the sweatpants and hoodies commonly worn today among college students, French college students carried...
Le Bonheur/Happiness

Le Bonheur/Happiness

Fortunately I have never had anybody cheat on me in a relationship, and I have never cheated, but my personal mentality about cheating goes like this: just don’t do it. On the contrary, Agnes Varda’s 1965 film, Le Bonheur or Happiness, centers around François...