Sapphosophy - FILM AND T.V. REVIEWS/ARTICLES

The Handmaiden
by IMDb

We have to recommend this version of Fingersmith! It is better than the original and I think Sarah Waters who wrote both versions will agree! Director: Chan-wook Park Writers: Sarah Waters (inspired by the novel "Fingersmith" by), Main Role Seo-kyeong Jeong. The Handmaiden, is perfect; every frame handcrafted to perfection. Even with 4min of explicit sex taken away by my country's dumb censors, this is still perfect every way I see it.

Carol
by IMDb

Carol film reviews. No Spolers. "I can't remember the last time I have been as touched by a movie. It hit my heart just in the right places, and when I walked out of the theater I felt like I had just experienced someone else's life. There are plenty of times where either Carol or Therese insinuate feelings by using seemingly casual sentences. "Your perfume... it smells good." is really just a synonym for "I want to kiss you". "Oh stop it, you look perfect!" can very well mean "I want to spend the rest of my life with you." The lines are not obvious giveaways and I love it. The audience gets to think for themselves."

The Duke of Burgundy
by IMDb

The Duke of Burgundy film reviews. No Spoilers. "Forget 9 1/2 Weeks, forget Last Tango in Paris, forget Secretary and most definitely forget 50 Shades, this is THE definitive cinematic essay on a dom/sub relationship. The idea is a fascinating and brave one: to create an homage to artistic elements of the "disreputable" sexploitation movies of the 1970s and make it beautiful and profound."

Orange Is the New Black
by IMDb

Orange Is the New Black Reviews. No Spolilers. The Memoir of Piper Kerman Author: filmchaser from United States. "The cast is amazing, and the storyline well written, with good character development through flashbacks. The guards and prison administration are portrayed as corrupt and exploitative in a believable way. The prisoners are multi-dimensional, at times sympathetic, with loyalties that change depending on what is at risk at that moment in time as tribal principles prevail. This story is about adaptation and survival as much as it is about finding love in all the wrong places. And this really happened to someone. I would highly recommend this enjoyable series."

The L Word
by IMDb

This artistically Showtime made TV series primarily focuses on portrayal of lesbians in their 20s to 40s as urban professionals and deals with their everyday issues; at the same time, thematic materials such as working on relationships or struggling against temptations have universal qualities so that any open-minded persons, regardless of gender and sexual orientation, can associate with the happenings in the show.

Scopophlia in Mulholland Drive.
by Laura Mulvey

Mulholland Drive (2001) is a film written and directed by acclaimed cult filmmaker and artist David Lynch, who is perhaps better known for his award-winning ?80s true story The Elephant Man or award-winning TV series Twin Peaks.

Paul Karpenko / Laura Mulvey

Are all films inherently chauvinist and sexist? Perhaps to a degree. Comolli and Narboni suggest that every film is political in one way or another. Whether it makes its ideology plain or not is unimportant. Mulvey observes that cinema succeeds because it encourages that deep, dark human pleasure: the need to observe. There is ?pleasure in looking?, she argues...