sarah lennon galavan, Author at cléo https://cleojournal.com/author/slennongalavan/ a journal of film and feminism Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:44:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 Flipping the script: Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? https://cleojournal.com/2016/08/18/flipping-the-script-nadine-labakis-where-do-we-go-now/ Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:11:05 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=1690 In her 2011 film Where Do We Go Now?, director Nadine Labaki explores the complex and taboo subjects of sectarian violence, religion, and patriarchal oppression in contemporary Lebanon—through humour expressed almost entirely by women. It’s a move that flips the script on conventional Western depictions of Middle Eastern women. In doing this, Labaki’s story of […]

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