What Bridesmaids does so well, Walking and Talking did first, more realistically, and for a lot less money.
On Heavenly Creatures and female friendship
Joachim Trier’s first film, Reprise, is the Norwegian Kicking and Screaming, the male Virgin Suicides.
On male friendship in Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy
A League of Their Own understands that for women it’s a different ballgame with different rules.
These adaptations of Stephen King’s stories remind us that memory is faulty—in remembering our past we are incidentally altering it.
The longer they’re on the road alone together and the further away they get, the more Thelma and Louise revert to a state of nature, both externally and internally.
