lindsay jensen, Author at cléo https://cleojournal.com/author/ljensen/ a journal of film and feminism Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:56:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Stalled Beat: Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden https://cleojournal.com/2014/12/03/stalled-beat-mia-hansen-loves-eden/ Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:24:21 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1063 Midway through Mia Hansen-Løve’s sprawling, electronic dance music–themed Eden, French DJ Paul (the perpetually doe-eyed Félix de Givry) meets a Chicago DJ with whom he has been corresponding. “Man, you look young,” the man states bluntly. “Yeah, I get that a lot,” Paul bashfully replies. The exchange feels like a playful nod on Hansen-Løve’s part, […]

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]]> “Later On Down the Road”: The Anachronistic Geography of Thelma & Louise https://cleojournal.com/2014/04/24/later-on-down-the-road-the-anachronistic-geography-of-thelma-louise/ Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:52:17 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=764 Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise is often read as a feminist version of the road movie: a gender-swapped response to that ever-beloved genre in which man finds himself on the open road. Yet the film is more than the story of two women adopting masculine roles: Thelma (Geena Davis), Louise (Susan Sarandon), and their 1966 […]

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]]> The Analog Mother: Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion https://cleojournal.com/2013/07/25/the-analog-mother-joseph-kosinskis-oblivion/ Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:09:55 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=345 The cabin is well worn, but one gets the feeling this is due to the age of its materials, rather than the use it has had over the years. A record player cracks and pops, and the lilting wail of Jimmy Page fills the air as a flannel-clad man dribbles and shoots a basketball at […]

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]]> “It’s Biology”: Zero Dark Thirty and the Politics of the Body https://cleojournal.com/2013/04/01/its-biology-zero-dark-thirty-and-the-politics-of-the-body/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:57:01 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=229 “In the end everyone breaks, bro. It’s biology.” Billing itself as “The Greatest Manhunt in History,” and similarly described by its director as a “first draft of history,” Zero Dark Thirty is a film that asks to be viewed as an impartial, reliable document of historical events—there is little room for the frivolities of fiction […]

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