can still remember the morning when Deanna tearfully explained to me her experience of this natural season in a woman’s life—the way her body felt like it was a stranger, recalcitrant, behaving in ways she couldn’t predict and didn’t like; the way she resented this diminishment of desire, even as she grappled with its chemical reality; the way she

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Films that scramble the codes and signals of sexuality, wherever that sexuality may fall on the spectrum, are of immense interest to me because it’s a reminder of how each human being is a welter of infinite contradictions. I’m so much more interested in that kind of cinema as opposed to a very programmatic cinema that is interested only in... See more

actress Sydney Sweeney, usually depicted in explicit sexual situations and massively dehumanised in favour of her body and beauty, was both the star and producer of Immaculate released in March 2024.