Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping – Femme #Berlinale2023

PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, directors of the film Femme.

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Sam H. Freeman and NgChoon Ping deliver an outstanding movie with Femme, in Panorana at Berlinale 73. In this talk we analyse the issues of homophobia , heterophobia and toxic masculinity , going deep into explaining the mission the film has and the formal construction of it, that makes it one of the most surprising feature s of the whole festival.

Femme: With his performances as Aphrodite Banks, Jules 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 guy out with a gang of blokes. Although Jules is able to recover physically, he withdraws from the outside world, traumatised. Months later, he recognises 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 homosexual Preston in order to take his revenge.

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Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping – Femme #Berlinale2023 was first posted on March 3, 2023 at 8:59 pm.
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