Screening at TIFF: Arie and Chuko Esiri’s ‘Clarissa’
Novelistic and abstruse, the film—named for Woolf's nostalgic middle-aged socialite, Clarissa Dalloway—unfolds with the very same stream-of-consciousness telling as the original text.
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Screening at Venice: May el-Toukhy’s ‘Woman Unknown’
The only film by a solo woman director in this year's Venice competition, it shoulders the burden of representing a feminine point of view, whether it wants to or not.
Screening at Venice: Halkawt Mustafa’s ‘No Paradise If You Are Killed By a Woman’
It's one of the most immaculately designed war films you're likely to see this year, with an enveloping use of environment and atmosphere. But when it comes to filling that space with dynamic drama, sadly, it misses its mark.
