Every Tuesday Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Captain America:
Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is female-directed horror films.
The story of Freckles, written and directed by Denise Papas Meechan, opens with Lizzie introducing herself by voicing her strong hatred she has for the “ugly orange dots” that she refers to as her “star map to loneliness”. This is a story of a woman who has a disturbingly distorted view of herself. Despite her mother telling her that the freckles are “kisses from God”, Lizzie sees them as a curse.
There’s something timeless about Roald Dahl’s children’s stories that always made me assume they were older than they were. The effect likely comes from their blend of weirdly dark situations and moralistic underpinnings, which feels very much like old fairy tales. Most modern pieces for children are toned down or bland, but Dahl didn’t speak down to kids.
