Norweigian filmmaker Mona Fastvold’s doomed love affair is soft, gentle and plays out like an audio-visual book of a person rummaging through memories and the sadness that comes with it
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Women in Love: The World to Come Is Filled With the Wild Excitement of Romance
Women in Love: The World to Come Is Filled With the Wild Excitement of Romance
Vanessa Kirby is utterly magnetic in director Mona Fastvold s 19-century historical drama focused on the desire between women
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March 7, 2021
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You smell like biscuits. Of all the details comprising Tallie and Abigail’s first kiss in Mona Fastvold’s
The World to Come, this reaction, which comes from Abigail, may be the most surprising and disarming moreso, even, than the fact that it’s a kiss between two married women in 19th-century America. It’s a covert but not wholly unexpected gesture between wives whose passions seem only to spring to life while their husbands are away. It’s a surprising line, in part, for containing so much.
Prior to it being scheduled to open at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center this weekend, I had never heard of âThe World to Come.âÂ
The film, which tells the story of neighboring married couples living in the harsh landscapes of the United States in the 19th century, had completely flown under my radar. I hadnât seen a trailer, and I donât recall the film ever coming up in any conversations. With the lack of conversation surrounding the film, I assumed the film must not provide much to talk about. Â
Now, having seen the film, I can say my assumption was wrong. The film does have a very interesting â and occasionally depressing â story that manages to have a significant emotional impact on the viewer. âThe World to Comeâ is a little meandering and unfocused at times, but the overall experience is still something worth discussing.Â
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