by Mina Tham | Nov 6, 2020 | Issues, Left
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,...
by Mina Tham | Nov 6, 2020 | Issues, Left
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...
by Mina Tham | Nov 6, 2020 | Issues, Left
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...
by Mina Tham | Nov 6, 2020 | Issues, Left
Love is complicated and takes many forms; the love you feel for your parents, your friends, and your significant other are all different but still considered love. What would happen if the love you felt for somebody was still there, but the person was gone? The 1966...
by Mina Tham | Nov 6, 2020 | Issues, Left
One of my favorite films used to be The Help (2011), directed by Tate Taylor, but now I know that this film is considered a ‘white-savior’ film, and that’s changed my mind completely. A ‘white-savior’ in film is when a white person “saves” people of color...
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