Ani FaNelli (Mila Kunis) lives an opulent, regimented and, a few human beings may consider, enviable existence. The protagonist of Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive writes for a smooth ladies’s magazine, is engaged to a poster boy for summers in Nantucket and wears clothier garments tailor-made to her svelte shape. She has discerning taste, a pointy … Read more
Before Romeo fell for Juliet, he lusted after her cousin, Rosaline. He exalted her splendor to his friends (“The all-seeing sun / ne’er noticed her fit when you consider that first the sector begun”) and bemoaned her rejection (“She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow / Do I stay lifeless that stay to … Read more
It’s tough to think about a higher name than the only writer-director Cyril Schäublin got here up with for his 2nd feature, which chronicles the political fervor swelling underneath the floor of a quiet, picturesque business metropolis in late-nineteenth century Switzerland. That metropolis, nestled cozily beside the Jura Mountains, is domestic to a manufacturing facility … Read more