Ema is not like any other film that has come out this year so far. Its celebration of female agency is like a fever dream — indescribable and euphoric.
For a movie like And Then We Danced, so steeped in the traditional culture of Georgian dance, to embrace its taboo subject matter is defiance, artistically rendered.
While Gloria Bell might be almost a carbon copy of 2013’s Gloria, the film demonstrates how much Sebastián Lelio has evolved as a director over the past six years.