Articles by Chelsea Phillips-Carr
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Review: ‘Confucian Dream’
With great sensitivity, Confucian Dream presents the viewer with the specific outcome of a woman’s conversion, but at its heart, it explores universal truths about relationships.
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Review: ‘Because We Are Girls’
The repetition of this genre of sexual violence documentary speaks to a stagnation in society.
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Review: ‘Behind the Shutters’
Raverdy’s is not simply appropriation of a Varda-esque style: she backs up her aesthetics with politics.
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Review: ‘Anbessa’
A middling film.
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Review: ‘The Pickup Game’
Doc looks at the “pickup” industry while revealing/analyzing little.
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Review: ‘The Hypnotist’
The Hypnotist is a remarkably well-crafted film.
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Review: ‘Animus Animalis (a story about People, Animals and Things)’
Doc is less concerned with the animals in its title, and more concerned with how humans interact with them when they die.
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Review: ‘The Magic Life of V’
A LARP-ing we will go!
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Review: ‘Campo’
Campo reaches towards a lyrical meditation on very present topics.
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Up on the Roof
Pedro Ruiz’s Havana, from on High explores Cuba’s housing crisis from a unique point of view.
