“We are the granddaughters, the great granddaughters, the daughters and the sisters of those who put their art and their body, their territory and their landscape as heretic torches to light up a new sky. We are The Daughters of Fire.”
This week we both reviewed The Daughters of fire.
"From the premise of Albertina Carri’s Las Hijas del Fuego (2019), I was convinced that I was off to a winner. A queer-as-fuck ever-growing group of women go on a…
Portrait of a Lady on Fire - “paint me like one of Sciamma girls”
The way I would describe my feelings after watching this would be as such; my heart a sponge - squeezed in one's hand. Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady of Fire (2020) is a film that surprised me. It’s a french period drama about a love affair, and yet, it surprised me. The story is that of Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a young talented painter that has…
Rafiki - Neon in darkness
There's a lot to be said about a film that has the ability to permeate lasting feelings of - in equal measure - both joy and deep sadness. Wanuri Kahui's Rafiki (2019) follows the curious, bewitched, tender growth of a love between two young women, Kena (Samantha Mugatsia) and Ziki (Sheila Munyiva). To their misfortune, their respective fathers happen to be political rivals in an upcoming local election in the city of Nairobi, Kenya. As…
