Happening shows the importance of legal abortion through the experience of a young woman forced into backyard abortion in early 1960s France. Barry Healy reviews.
As a queer woman raised in the Catholic school system, the premise of Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta (2022) – a ‘biographical drama’ about a 17th-century lesbian…
I d like a child one day, but not instead of a life. IFC has debuted the official US trailer for an acclaimed French drama titled Happening, the second
You could say director Paul Verhoeven specializes in the field of blasphemy, at least in the global sense. The venerable director, now 83, has made a career of being provocative, sometimes with luminous sex ("Basic Instinct"), sometimes with unrestrained violence and gore ("Starship Troopers"), sometimes with uncomfortable subject matter ("Black Book," "Elle"), sometimes with campy, questionable taste ("Hollow Man"), or often, some combination of all of the above ("Showgirls").