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Beatrice Loayza

7 months

Deliriously proud to share my @Criterion liner essay for the new Chantal Akerman boxset. Best thing I wrote in 2023? Very likely.

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Beatrice Loayza

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4 years

Post-rehab, Zac Efron started an INSANE workout & diet routine to help him cope w the challenges of staying sober. He's since acknowledged this was its own type of unhealthy behavior, and regrets taking it that far. Framing this as a before (good) and after (bad) is really gross.

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Zac Efron's 'dad bod' transformation on Netflix show shocks fans

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3 years

The aesthetic, the world-building, the pulsing drama of Dune...truly incomparable

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4 years

me ever since the movie theaters shut down

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4 years

I personally like my sex scenes arbitrary and gratuitous because i’m not a fucking cop

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5 years

lanthimos posters are always good

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2 years

Sad news: I was one of the casualties of Criterion’s layoffs. Super proud of my work there - and we’ve still got some writing goodies in store coming soon! - but let a girl know if you’ve got any leads on editorial gigs in the worlds of film, books, theater, and beyond!

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7 months

The Barbie stuff is what happens when half-inspired overworked journalists need to come up with baity awards think pieces that gesture at a narrative that’s much more serious than the facts themselves, and the terminally online running with it to a horrific, delusional extent.

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4 years

WEST SIDE STORY-reshoot-all-the-Ansel Elgort-scenes-with-a-new-actor-like-in-ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD challenge🤪

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4 years

team MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - Kenneth Branagh, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard, and Denzel Washington at Cannes, 1993

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1 year

Rotten Tomatoes has always been an embarrassment to the profession; the certified critic designation, the equivalent of a participation trophy; the grading format, a total sham! It weaponizes the illusion of “diverse voices” against basic standards of good criticism. Burn it!

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3 years

oh to be a sick woman stuck in a fashionable home

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2 years

I would be a good 30-40% less bothered if they didn't go by "the Daniels." Extremely freshman roommate vibes.

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5 years

Robert Pattinson taking that sweet, sweet Hollywood dough back to his master, Claire Denis

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3 years

For the new issue of @SightSoundmag , I talked to Aubrey Plaza (!!) about Black Bear, the power dynamics of working with your s/o, playing slutty characters, and much more. It’s easily one of the funnest interviews i’ve ever done.

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4 years

Ruth Negga has intense silent era sex symbol vibes. Passing and Rebecca Hall know this.

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5 years

Birds of Prey was ehh fine & fun & (thank god) isn't something blindly aiming for prestige. however, I want to personally thank Cathy Yan for never coming close to a moment as nauseatingly empty and baity as that Avengers "girl power" moment in Endgame.

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4 years

Girls on here when some rando declares a movie is only liked by dudes

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4 years

*Gulps* @Criterion asked me to write the essay for their release of Céline and Julie Go Boating. You could say it’s one of the greatest honors of my professional career😳💅

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3 years

Just dreaming of a world in which films with a bunch of boobs and sex are not immediately dismissed as ~for the dudes~

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3 years

News! Today was my first day as associate web editor @Criterion , where I'll be working with the wonderful @wenyeowchan to spice up The Current. Yes, I am glowing rn💅🥲

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7 months

She’s arrived 😭

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Beatrice Loayza

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3 years

Surreal news: For @nytimes , I had the great honor of chain-smoking with Leos Carax and getting a peek into his mind. We talked about ghosts.

Leos Carax on ‘Annette’ and the Cinema of Doubt (Published 2021)

His movies often arrive amid a commotion, and his newest is no exception: “If you’re going to make a musical, you’ve got to be either ambitious or pretentious.”

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4 years

my loneliness / is killing me ᴬⁿᵈ ᴵ

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5 years

petition to screen THE LIGHTHOUSE with subtitles

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3 years

The stars of The Matrix Reloaded at Cannes in 2003

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3 years

My 21 y/o brother is convinced superhero movies have been performing poorly because more and more people are “catching on” that they’re “actually embarrassing”

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4 years

Julianne Moore at the 1995 MTV Music Video Awards

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4 years

Joker now on HBO.......lol remember the Joker discourse. those were simpler, sillier times

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2 years

You go into Blonde hoping for a bit of *problematique* spiciness and all you get is the most boring and rudimentary pro-life misogyny. These guys can’t even get provocation right smh….

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4 years

Pete Berg and Mark Wahlberg currently stroking their chins at how they’ll spin this one.

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6 years

Funny how two high profile potential Oscar movies (A Star is Born ; First Man) have evil twins (Vox Lux ; High Life)

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4 years

This says a lot about the state of modern criticism, RT as a third party mediator of criticism, the kinds of outlets/platforms for criticism that are surviving in our dying industry.......and it says absolutely nothing about the quality of movies.

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As I've long said, Most Movies Are Good

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3 years

Tired: Scorsese comparing superhero movies to amusement parks Wired: Rossellini likening audiences to babies only capable of consuming premasticated food

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What’s a good male performance where he’s a BABY who’s a BOSS

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4 years

Wrote about how much i love sex in the movies for @guardian .

Some sex scenes are gratuitous, but a good one can electrify a film | Beatrice Loayza

Prudish opposition to steamy scenes overlooks how desire is part of the cinematic experience, says film writer Beatrice Loayza

www.theguardian.com

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

1 year

Treat Williams, indelible as the matinee-idol-as-menace in SMOOTH TALK💔

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4 years

Jacques Rivette summing up my yearning.

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2 years

Reading Dick Cavett's Criterion top 10 and had no idea he was the Original Weeb (and may have stalked Setsuko Hara lol)

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

5 years

meanwhile on Isabelle Huppert’s instagram.....

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

4 years

my childhood—

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

5 years

when will Danny McBride get his big dramatic breakout movie like Sandler with PUNCH DRUNK LOVE or Carrey with ETERNAL SUNSHINE. he is a honestly a terrific actor, and I am ready for it.

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

4 years

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Wages of Fear (1953) // Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World (1948)

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@bealoayza

4 years

The same people demanding that movies be 90 minutes long are the same ones complaining about sex scenes that don't "advance the plot." This impulse is anti-art, sorry it's the truth.

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@bealoayza

4 months

Léa Seydoux, currently the world’s greatest film actor!

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

1 year

If you've been working through the @criterionchannl erotic thrillers series, then this one’s for you: behold my deep-dive into the origins of the genre and its deliciously vulgar reinvention of the femme fatale. Happy to be back in the @criterion pages🖤

The Wet Dreams and Twisted Politics of Erotic Thrillers

Combining elements of soft-core porn and film noir, one of the most popular Hollywood genres of the 1980s and ’90s captured the fraught aspirationalism and sexual mores of the era.

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2 years

Celebrities keep their images so straightjacketed and Hollywood gossip has become so anemic that this minor Don’t Worry Darling drama has somehow created an air of fascination around a film that looks painfully generic…

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

9 months

Hello I wrote about THE KILLER and somehow also made it about JEANNE DIELMAN, for @thenation

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5 years

“All of my favorite movies were made after 1999!” Me:

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Beatrice Loayza

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2 years

Lars von Trier circa 1985 refused to send Spielberg a copy of The Element of Crime lol

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

3 years

For @thebafflermag ⚡️I wrote about PYW (groan) and MeToo movies in context: featuring notes on Hitchcock’s Marnie, the regressive politics and return to gender essentialism of the most “important” feminist objects, and a new kind of stock character..

She Stays Winning | Beatrice Loayza

In “Promising Young Woman” and its predecessors, empowerment is possible only through gratuitous suffering.

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9 months

practically as a rule, suckers!!!

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3 years

Nothing more terrifying than a film critic announcing they once read a canonical text of English literature

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4 months

My dog when I took her to the park to roll around in the grass during the eclipse

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

3 years

Ecstatic to finally share my essay for @Criterion ’s new release of Céline and Julie Go Boating🥺💫

Céline and Julie Go Boating: State of Play

Drawing on influences ranging from classic Hollywood to cartoons, Jacques Rivette’s uncategorizable masterpiece plunges viewers into a world shaped by the friendship and imagination shared by two...

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Beatrice Loayza

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4 years

It’s a sad time for French film culture. Squelching critical discourse w/ the buyout of Cahiers one day, awarding national prizes to rapists the next, under that cherished, tired old guard guise “judge the art not the artist.” im certain those voters consider their choice *brave*

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1 year

Found my childhood movie ticket stash from mostly 2005-2007 and I remain astonished by my mother’s blasé attitude w/r/t “age appropriate” screenings. In all seriousness, thanks mom!

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Beatrice Loayza

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4 years

TIFF update: I just received two emails, one telling me to disregard my rejection email. Another one approving my accreditation.

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2 years

Declarations of leaving Twitter giving “I’m moving to Canada” circa 2016.

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5 years

happy valentines day here is the definitive, indisputable sexiest/horniest/most romantic etc. moment in the history of cinema

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@bealoayza

5 months

Wow this is a great list who—

2022 Sight & Sound Lists

@2022SightSound

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Beatrice Loayza (critic, USA)

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Beatrice Loayza

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10 months

Wrote the new Chantal liners and then some. A huge honor🥲

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3 years

Farewell My Concubine stars Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, and Leslie Cheung at Cannes in 1993.

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3 years

Tfw you're high as a kite on the Dick Cavett show

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robert mitchum entering the dick cavett show like he owns the place.

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For all its punch and visual splendor, I found POOR THINGS weirdly boring. Wrote about why—and the film's humdrum feminism—for @FilmComment

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

3 years

Mom told me to watch The Wh*t* L*t*s and I told her I’m not interested. The claws came out

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4 years

buried up to my head in cinema

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4 years

Anyway, here’s Jacques Rivette shit-talking James Cameron, Michael Haneke, and Stanley Kubrick.

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@bealoayza

4 years

lmao i just saw a tweet that begins: "Spike Lee's remix of Triple Frontier (...)" watch more movies, movie people.

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4 years

Men can read whatever they want. I’ll still find a way to make fun of their tastes. It’s called f l i r t i n g

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Beatrice Loayza

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7 months

Taking a little moment for Todd Haynes and the entire cast of May December, Andrew Scott, Fallen Leaves, Zac Efron. Voted off the island but still the winners in my heart . . .

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3 years

Me discussing M. Night Shyamalan with the haters

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2 years

This level of fraught and messy in a contemporary celebrity who is simultaneously being awarded and legitimized……….Will Smith bringing back the meaning of star power

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5 months

Here I am (looking gravely serious in my author pic and) writing about why "feminist" as yardstick for quality is increasingly fraught. @guardianopinion

Is Poor Things a feminist film? Is Barbie? These have become meaningless questions | Beatrice Loayza

The label of ‘feminist’ is beginning to feel more like a subcategory on Netflix than a meaningful description of art, says culture writer Beatrice Loayza

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

She’s here🥺

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4 years

Mads Mikkelson wearing a dachshund shirt

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Beatrice Loayza

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4 years

Please...find new obsessions.

LETS TALK MOVIE

@LetstalkMovie_

4 years

RANK

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2 years

Mom weighs in. “My movie Tar” as in I informed her it exists lol

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2 years

I’ve been researching/thinking about/agonizing over Delphine Seyrig for the past ~6 months, so this is a big one for me. On *la divine* and Akerman’s Golden Eighties for @Criterion 🧡

An Enigma Made Flesh: Delphine Seyrig in Golden Eighties

In her last significant film role, the art-house icon reveals an emotional vulnerability previously hidden by her ethereal persona.

www.criterion.com

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4 years

i cannot help but see this!

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

9 months

One of my most enjoyable writing projects in recent memory. And what an honor to go in on the only superheroes worth acknowledging: Michelle, Maggie, and Anita🖤

Criterion Collection

@Criterion

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Our amazing new edition includes: • A new interview with actor Anthony Wong • A new interview with film critic Samm Deighan • An essay by @bealoayza • New covers by @alicexz and more!

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3 years

Mom has officially weighed in on the Oscars...and she’s on point!

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4 years

We could reinforce the idea that criterion is the premiere canonical tastemaker and hope that long-neglected titles get added. Or we could divest ourselves, at least in part, of that idolatry and turn to the many, many small distributors already doing the work!

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3 years

Nothing like seeing your work in physical form @CinemaScopeMag

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2 years

RIP Michael Snow, whose films forged a new way of seeing.

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2 years

Every man in NYC over the age of 26 is reading White Noise. Endearing!

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4 years

Luis 🎬🌌

@RealRadReviews

4 years

Imagine watching a scene like this and not thinking Jojo Rabbit was one of the best of the year.

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4 years

I’m a fan of it getting dark early: no glare on the TV screen, more quality time with the moon, more womblike. I was born in the darkness, you could say I was molded by it..

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Beatrice Loayza

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4 years

guys...i wrote about being a shitty dancer, watching MIAMI VICE, and realizing that Sonny Crockett is the man of my dreams. my first piece for @thecut !

I Think About Colin Farrell Salsa Dancing a Lot

It wasn’t a night at the club that made me regret never learning to dance — it was his sultry scene in Miami Vice.

www.thecut.com

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@bealoayza

4 years

Almodóvar come get your next lead.

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@contodonetflix

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I could listen to @anyataylorjoy say "me lo morfé" all day 🇦🇷🥰 here, she shares how her Argentine roots have shaped her, and what she learned from playing the role of Beth Harmon on The Queen's Gambit.

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4 years

me next week when i'm done catching up on 2020 movies

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1 year

Loving the Cillian Murphy episode of WTF. Not because it’s satisfying but because Maron’s doing backflips, brandishing his charisma, throwing prompts like ninja stars and Cillian’s got nothing but Music Guy Thoughts and platitudes. Mystique preserved, yearning increased.

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Beatrice Loayza

@bealoayza

4 years

Restless despair is at “Monica Vitti in Red Desert” levels today.

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Beatrice Loayza

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5 years

Well #Us was much more ambitious than I expected. And dense. One things for sure, there’s no moment of rest. The ladies dominate the show: LUPITA, Shahadi Joseph, and Elizabeth Moss are excellent. #sxsw #sxsw2019

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My first cover story for @CinemaScopeMag ✨ is a spicy interview with Alice Diop on Saint Omer, the question of artistic universality, and the exasperating experience of dealing w certain pockets of the French media/pop culture as a Black filmmaker. Voila👇