Girls of the Sun (Les Filles du soleil)

a LOT too much paprika on the sandwich in places where none would have been nice, but Golshifteh Farahani is a righteous warrior par excellence and Eva Husson is one hell of a filmmaker… the fluid way she shoots bodies in motion, filling the empty spaces around them with…

davidehrlich

"waiting drives you crazy.""and that's what they'll never understand. our rage to live.""a hope that defies the human condition."beautiful when it's about the strength, resilience and redemption of women. gut-wrenching and harrowing for the rest. i don't think i should've…

olivia

44/100 Back at what I guess we can now call, sans irony, the turn of the century, I engaged in a lengthy chat-group debate regarding the nature of bad movies. Participants will remember it by its thread title: "Ambitious Failure" = Utter nonsense. The main question being…

Mike D'Angelo

it makes me sad that in this day and age, the only way to get these incredibly impressive and important stories out there is apparently still by having a white, western character as a framing device...

Esme

I’ll start by saying that war movies? Not my thing.  2018 is going to be the year that everyone says Eva Husson is the next Kathryn Bigelow. It’s not a bad comparison, it’s just a lazy one. I liked this movie well enough, but the framing device is unnecessary and the way…

Aaron Michael

A very fine performance by Golshifteh Farahani in a film that just needed to be more, I suppose. It is mostly related to its structure and how little it uses its own premise, developing a lot of the protagonist but forgeting other elements of the film.

maneleeo

My Notes: Cinematography and lighting is stunning. The rich orange hues of light sparkling over the grim landscapes offers a glimpse of hope where it often felt abandoned otherwise. Can’t tell if it’s through creative freedom or editing boundaries of some sort but there…

SnowboardJunkie

in which the discourse surrounding the film significantly overshadows it essentially review bombed by men upset that a mid-quality film had a desirable screening time despite the supposed masters always getting these timeslots no matter the quality has some issues with…

dselwyns

I was pretty excited when I heard that director Eva Husson's next film was going to based on a group of female soldiers, Daughters of the Sun, who are looking to reclaim their town that has been infiltrated by ISIS extremists. This is a story that should have made me…

Leesah Sea