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Eileen G’Sell

Eileen G’Sell is a poet and critic with regular contributions to Hyperallergic, Reverse Shot, The Hopkins Review, and The Riverfront Times, among other publications. In 2019 she was nominated for the Rabkin Prize in arts journalism. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. More on her writing can be found here.

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A Coming-of-Age Film That Sidesteps Cliché

by Eileen G’Sell July 3, 2021July 2, 2021

Ena Sendijarević’s debut feature, Take Me Somewhere Nice, follows a young Bosnian refugee as she sets off to visit a native country she no longer knows.

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The Darker Side of Keith Haring

by Eileen G’Sell May 15, 2021May 16, 2021

The exhibition “Keith Haring: Radiant Gambit” presents a more complicated — and certainly more interesting — take on an artist best known for his zippy visuals.

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The Art of Looking at, and With, Animals

by Eileen G’Sell April 17, 2021April 19, 2021

Gunda and Stray reveal how difficult it is not to romanticize the lives of other animals.

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In Sound of Metal, There Are No Small Sufferings

by Eileen G’Sell April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

Darius Marder’s Oscar-nominated film is less about the Deaf community than about the process of losing a sense inextricably tied to one’s identity.

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The Intoxicating Tilda Swinton Masters Almodóvar

by Eileen G’Sell March 13, 2021January 7, 2022

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film, The Human Voice, offers heady pathos and sumptuous visuals in equal excess.

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A Film That Tests Assumptions About Race, Rape, and Power

by Eileen G’Sell March 6, 2021March 5, 2021

“Test Pattern” chronicles a biracial courtship and coupledom as a means of probing larger power asymmetries.

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9to5 Strikes at a Missing Piece of Feminist History

by Eileen G’Sell February 20, 2021February 19, 2021

In the late 1970s and early ’80s, women office workers banded together in a labor movement that sprouted up in 25 cities across the country.

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Two Dramas Plumb the Depths of Women’s Midlife Chaos

by Eileen G’Sell February 6, 2021February 9, 2021

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Time and My Little Sister are complicated films about complicated people.

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Pieces of a Woman Falls to Pieces

by Eileen G’Sell January 23, 2021January 22, 2021

What begins as a trenchant exploration of losing a child becomes a Lifetime-esque affair that strays so sharply from a mother’s grief that it feels a bit like a betrayal.

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When Class Conflict Met Queer Romance

by Eileen G’Sell November 28, 2020November 28, 2020

Ammonite tells a 19th-century love story that prompts less a tingle through the loins than a chill down the spine.

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A David Wojnarowicz Documentary Honors the Gritty, Glorious Chaos of His Life

by Eileen G’Sell November 14, 2020September 15, 2021

In Wojnarowicz’s work, as in his life, testing the limits of artistic categories and systemic and institutional power was central to his impassioned vision.

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A Woman Escapes the Grip of Men in Charlie Kaufman’s Latest Film

by Eileen G’Sell October 24, 2020November 5, 2020

Director Charlie Kaufman’s men leech off women for validation, while women attempt to escape their parasitic grip.

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