'Nymphomaniac II', 'Happening', and 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' depict backstreet abortion as either a solitary or collaborative experience among women.
In a season of Top 10 lists, here’s one on steroids: We looked through the last 12 months of movie reviews and found 33 films that received 3 1/2 or 4 stars from our critics. Ranging from such mainstream fare as “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Nope” to “You Won’t Be Alone” – a little Macedonian-language […]
Audrey Diwan's film Happening (L'Événement), which won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2021, hit U.S. theaters in May, about the.
"Happening," Audrey Diwan's Golden Lion-winner at last year's Venice Film Festival, is set in 1963 France but the period detail isn't prominent. Instead, it's an abortion tale that feels as though it could it could take place in many places, long ago or today.