Sundance 2023 1st dispatch: Women Directors Tackle Themes of Frankenstein, Introverts and Little Richard
We’re here to give you the scoop on the new crop of films playing at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Offering over 110 feature films, there is quality cinema in every corner of Park City. Sundance sets the tone for the year on independent cinema, they are the gatekeepers, star-makers and our guiding light. This is important because Independent Cinema provides valuable representation of women and other marginalized groups in front of and behind the camera.
Birth/Rebirth What would you be willing to do to keep your child alive? That is the devastating question you can ask yourself while you are experiencing the emotional trauma of the body horror thriller Birth/Rebirth. ADVERTISEMENT With good science on her side, a creepy mortician named Rose helps Celia, a grieving maternity nurse to keep her daughter “alive.” With plenty of gory autopsies, gruesome experiments and disgusting medical procedures, this masterful modern feminist Frankenstein story will keep you on the edge of your seat one needle insertion at a time.
ADVERTISEMENT Sometimes I think About Dying Set in a sleepy northwest costal town, a quiet and melancholy woman named Fran, , spends her days pushing spreadsheets and daydreaming of death. She lives alone and eats microwaved meat patties with cottage cheese. Her office mate Carol retires and Fran contemplates her own anonymous future. Her mundane life is upended when Robert , the new employee, starts working at the office.
Little Richard: I am Everything From the frenzied concert footage and over the top interviews with the King himself “Little Richard: I am Everything” walks on the hallowed ground of a musical legend. It’s a bit of a challenge to capture the whole essence of such a larger than life character in 120 minutes, but director Lisa Cortes delivers a compelling chronicle, taking us on wild ride through the life of one of the most influential musicians of the last century.
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