Femme

Name: Femme
Genre: Thriller
Released: March 22, 2024
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Aaron Heffernan, Antonia Clarke, Asha Reid, George MacKay, John Leader

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Utopia | Release Date: March 22, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Aaron Heffernan, Antonia Clarke, Asha Reid, George MacKay, John Leader, John McCrea, Luis Torrecilla, Moe Bar-El, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Nima Taleghani, Peter Clements, Peter McPherson, Ryan Walker-Edwards

Summary: With his performances as Aphrodite Banks, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) has a place among London’s celebrated drag artists. One night after a show, he steps out to get some cigarettes and is brutally attacked by a man (George MacKay), out with a gang of his friends. Although Jules is able to recover physically, he withdraws from theWith his performances as Aphrodite Banks, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) has a place among London’s celebrated drag artists. One night after a show, he steps out to get some cigarettes and is brutally attacked by a man (George MacKay), out with a gang of his friends. Although Jules is able to recover physically, he withdraws from the outside world, traumatized. Months later, he recognizes his attacker by chance in a gay sauna. Without make-up and wrapped only in a towel, Jules is able to approach the other man incognito and find out who he is. He begins an affair with the closeted Preston, with a plan to take his revenge.… Expand

Director: Ng Choon Ping and Sam H. Freeman

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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Collider Marco Vito Oddo

Feb 23, 2023

The main characters of Femme are more than one-dimensional representations of the part they play in society. They are complex human beings, filled with contradictions and trying to get by despite past traumas. Read full review

Roxana Hadadi

May 1, 2024

Sex can be a rigid rubric of performance for some and a fluid experiment in expression for others. The friction between those two perspectives fascinates Femme, a volatile, sensuous revenge film in which the body and its desires don’t lie. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Mar 22, 2024

The film’s outsides, all darkness and furtive lighting, seem to pour out of the characters’ insides, where pockets of trauma live in their own self-erected shadows. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Mar 27, 2024

Femme acknowledges its tropes and clichés; the film never soft-shoes the important part they play in its structure. What it does with them, though, feels fresh. Revenge is often ill-advised, even nihilistic. Femme’s revenge is a stamped guarantee of self-destruction. Read full review

The Film Stage Alistair Ryder

Mar 22, 2024

The suddenness with which it races to a disappointingly conventional resolution is the only misstep among a bold, remarkably assured debut feature. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Mar 21, 2024

The film avoids a cut-and-dried triumphalism for something more slippery and, perhaps, more meaningful, too. Read full review

David Rooney

Feb 23, 2023

Faltering storytelling and sloppy visual technique aside, the pas de deux of tenderness and violence, passivity and aggression between Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay keeps you watching, with both actors mostly overcoming the clichés in the way their characters are conceived. But Femme ends up being less subversive than it seems to think it is. Read full review

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