★★☆☆☆Oh dear. And it was all going so well. This cross-cultural horror from the producers of Get Out tells the story of diffident, Indian-born student Samidha (Megan Suri) who’s so desperate to blend
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Muslim women haven’t looked like this on American TV before. South Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, and Black, some covered in tattoos and wearing hijabs, most fans of punk rock, and all very aware of the stereotypes and assumptions through which people see them, both inside and outside of their community. What
We Are Lady Parts captures so astutely is the intersectionality and interiority long denied Muslim women in Hollywood productions. The members of the punk band Lady Parts talk politics (Boris Johnson: “worse than wank”), evoke
Wayne’s World while exuberantly singing along to The Proclaimers’s “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” in a cramped car, cheer each other on at open-mic poetry nights, and hang out on double dates. The delight these women experience while in each other’s company is infectious and doesn’t stop when they pause band practice to lay down their prayer rugs, or trade stories about embarrassing moments at the mosque, or argue about whe