The way you two do your things is none of my business. You re right, it s not. Good Deed has released an official US trailer for Ma Belle, My Beauty, an
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Ma Belle, My Beauty
Written and directed by Marion Hill.
Starring Idella Johnson, Hannah Pepper, Lucien Guignard, and Sivan Noam Shimon.
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A surprise reunion in the South of France reignites passions and jealousies between two women who were formerly polyamorous lovers.
Polyamory is an oddly circumscribed subject in cinema, largely unexplored even by cynical creatives keen largely to titillate, let alone more artfully minded filmmakers. Writer-director Marion Hill certainly shoots for the latter treatment in her lackadaisical feature debut – which won Sundance’s Audience Award in the NEXT category – yet its dawdling approach too often feels like a missed opportunity.
A promising but flawed first feature.
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Marion Hill s jazzy feature debut, winner of the Audience Award in Sundance s NEXT sidebar, explores a Franco-American polyamorous relationship.
Love triangles seem to occur more often in the movies than in real life unless I’ve been hanging out in all the wrong places. They are a convenient choice for storytellers looking for a piquant, offbeat way to dress up the green-eyed monster. There’s the thrill of the verboten but what often follows is the steep price at least one of the characters will have to pay for having entered into a liaison that’s more than a two-way street. Stories about three-way relationships more than three seems entirely impossible, at least in the movies often lure viewers into their web with the promise of liberating or kinky goings-on before things fall apart and a much more conventional sense of morality rears its ugly head.
Top row: CODA, Courtesy of Sundance Institute; Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), photo by Mass Distraction Media; Flee, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Bottom row: Hive, photo by Alexander Bloom; Writing With Fire, courtesy of Sundance Institute; Ma Belle, My Beauty, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Park City, UT After six days and 73 feature films, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, with jurors presenting 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for Short Films. Honorees, named in total below, represent new achievements in global independent storytelling. Bold, intimate, and humanizing stories prevailed across categories, with Grand Jury Prizes awarded to
Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
Today, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and the results were pretty bad! So perhaps we should try to cleanse our palates with the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards. This year’s Sundance was virtual, and while that experience can’t hold a candle to being on the ground in Park City, the festival organizers deserver lots of credit for putting the fest together in any capacity and running it smoothly. While I found a lot of the films I saw this year to be lacking, there were still plenty of noteworthy titles. Lots of attention was paid to