I like discussions! And maybe this post will start one, or maybe it will just give you a watching list the next time you want to sit down with your daughter or mother or sister or husband or friends and have a wide-ranging “no right answer” consideration of complex issues related to women.
Continue readingI love this movie so so so so much. And so far as I can tell, everyone who has watched this movie has also loved it so so so so much. It’s just lovable!
Continue readingIs that title clear? I’m so tired, but I really want to have this discussion because I think it is interesting. What are the movies with a female love interest who is more complex than your usual “pretty face, good girl” kind of heroine?
Continue readingI really surprised myself with how much I liked this movie. And I think you should all give it a chance because you might have a pleasant surprise too!
Continue readingWhat a satisfying movie! The heroine does everything I want her to do and her “punishment” for being outspoken is much less than I feared.
Continue readingThis movie is super satisfying to think about after all the depressing movies we have been talking about, and the ones that tried to make a sexual power relationship something romantic and nice instead of dangerous and unhealthy.
Continue readingIt came up in discussion that female lead films tend to be really dark. Which is true! But why should we watch a bunch of women be miserable and punished all the time? This is a post for us all to share recommendations for happy female lead films. And I’ll start with some of my favorites.
Continue readingReflects on Life was just talking about how usually “female films” means some depressing issue based movie and it is rare that they are simply movies with female leads. This is a movie with female leads, happy and rich and worrying about love affairs just like in male lead films. And I thought we deserved something happy after Neerja.
Continue readingThis is a really really good movie. And also a really really sad movie. In a kind of gently hopeful way, but still very very sad.
Continue readingHuh. Well, I watched it, and I’m glad I did so now I can stop wondering about it. But really, it wasn’t as good as I expected.
Continue readingThis is such a good movie! In a very dark way, it puts our heroine through the wringer because that’s what can happen in India, all sorts of things happen to a woman without her doing anything to cause them.
Continue readingOh boy, the second classic Tawaif film in two days! I say “second”, but really it is all of them. Pakeezah and Umrao Jaan cannot be compared to other Tawaif films, they are on their own level.
Continue readingI finally watched Umrao Jaan, and now I am all interested in Tawaif’s. Hopefully you are too!
Continue readingThis movie was so interesting! It really is just a southern action movie with the hero turned into a heroine. But at the same time, there were all of these things that are so specific to the female experience, and I just have to wonder, did the director look at them and think “Hey! I should remake this with a female star!” Or, were they added in when the hero became a woman?
Continue readingWhy oh why did I commit to two new reviews in one day? This was a terrible plan! And I am worried that both reviews will end up being shortchanged.
Continue readingI finally watched it! And it was sad, as expected, but also mesmerizing in a way I didn’t anticipate. Such a careful world that is created.
Continue readingPretty sure the title isn’t a spoiler, the trailer and poster alone, not to mention the title, made it pretty clear what the film is about.
Continue readingReady for a thought post? Of course you are! Thought posts are the best! Or at least, I like them.
Continue readingThis is such a good movie! Such an odd sweet pleasant happy movie, with a female character at the center of it who is an odd sweet pleasant happy woman. Really, watch it! It’s on Hotstar, you have no excuse.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! Halfway through the work week and it is really dragging me down this week. Sooooooooo many conference calls.
Continue readingThis is a classic, if you are talking women lead pictures in India you have to discuss it. But I don’t like it. So this will be an odd review.
Continue readingOkay, I came up with another theme! Not a great one, but one that should give us a decent mix of movies over the next 10 days, straight through to Saaho. And force me to finally review/watch a few classics.
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