She Spoiled It

Deadly Cuts: Review

9/1/2022

A black comedy about a bunch of vigilante Irish hairdressers? Yes please!

In a working-class Dublin hair salon, four women struggle to keep their business afloat against the headwinds of local deprivation and small-time mobsters milking them for protection money. But they have big aspirations. The “Ahh Hair” hairdressing competition is coming up and a win would mean saving the salon as well as defeating old enemies.

Violet: Review

26/12/2021

Surely most people know what it’s like to have that inner voice of self doubt constantly pecking at you. The thing that says the person you’re talking to thinks you’re annoying, or that you’ll never get that promotion.

Justine Bateman’s directorial debut “Violet”(2021) uses a range of audiovisual techniques to dig in to this feeling and really make us confront it.

The Hill Where Lionesses Roar: Review

19/12/2021

Youthful rage and frustration is not so often shown from a female perspective but this directorial debut from Kosovan Luàna Bajrami attempts to capture that feeling.

As In Heaven: Review

12/12/2021

“As In Heaven” (2021) is based on a book by Danish author Marie Bregendahl, depicting her own childhood in the 1880s. It is the story of a young girl on the cusp of freedom, hit with a sudden and harsh twist of fate in the worst night of her life.

The Bright Side: Review

5/12/2021

This Irish indie film takes a look at cancer, cynicism and sisterhood. And does so with a lot of heart.

The Man Who Sold His Skin: Review

28/11/2021

Nominated for the Best International Feature film at the 93rd Academy Awards, this latest film from Tunisian female filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania is both thought provoking and chilling.

Fathom: Review

21/11/2021

If a whale were in the same room as you right now singing you their song, it would be louder than a roaring jet engine. Humpback whale songs have rhythm, patterns, and repetition, and people have been studying them for years. This documentary follows two women each studying a different aspect of whale song, and what it’s like for them working in the field.

Even Mice Belong in Heaven: Review

14/11/2021

This stop-motion animation is gorgeous and soul-warming. It’s a lovely adventure through animal heaven learning how to be better creatures despite our upbringings and differences.

Spring Blossom: Review

24/10/2021

Suzanne Lindon wrote the script for Spring Blossom (2020) at just 15 years of age. At 19 she directed and starred in it. This French film is a short meditation on a very specific point in many people’s adolescence – an infatuation with an older person.

Comets: Review

10/10/2021

This film-of-two-halves by Georgian director Tamar Shavgulidze is a rumination on the theme of reuniting and adrift souls coming back together.

A teenage girl called Irina (Ekaterina Kalatozishvili) sits in a sun-drenched garden reading aloud to herself. “I sit nursing the rooted love I first planted as a sample…” She’s waiting for family members who never show up. But the person who does mysteriously arrive is another Irina (Nino Kasradze), the girl’s namesake.

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