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Call me a hopeless romantic, but I’m actually a huge sucker for romance comedies. While I’m well aware of the fact that most of them are ridiculously far-fetched, I enjoy getting caught up in the fake whirlwind of a perfect romance. Seeing two gorgeous characters fall head-over-heels for each other is so entertaining and heartwarming. But as much as I love these feel-good romances, nothing beats a good old romantic film that’s actually relatable.
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Pariah (2011) tells the story of Alike, a black teenage girl from Brooklyn who is a lesbian. She juggles conflicting identities, friendships, and family ties as she comes of age searching for sexual expression.
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Mustang (2015): directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, now playing in selected U.S. cities. In a remote present-day Turkish village, five sisters are locked up in an attempt by their grandmother and uncle to ‘tame' them. Their only way out is by arranged marriage. Mustang is a politically poignant story of stunted girlhood, sexuality, and coming of age as a woman in Turkey longing for a freer, alternative society.
Ergüzen tells Tribeca Film: "Femininity is really unexplored territory in terms of art history, in terms of cinema. Women in society have been most of the time represented through the eyes of men. That really does something to the way we articulate our societies as well because, for example, I really feel that a lot of people can’t at all project themselves [as] women. And it’s really a lack of perspective, because we, as women, know how men look. We’ve done that…women are rarely the subject. They’re the subject of discussion, but they’re not like the subject of action, of desires, of aspiration, and things like that. Most of the time, people just see them as this box, an object of desire, but they don’t project.”
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