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Such lazy inertia, exemplified by a drawn-out pan of the pupils lying on the grass in sundresses on a summer day, is struck away with a vengeance, though, as “Cracks” turns nightmarish in its final act. Ultimately, the story is a sordid one. As...
But the aesthetic splendor proves, perhaps a little predictably, to be little more than a patina. The lips of schoolmistress Miss G (played with tense precision by Eva Green) are put to unspeakable use by their owners, and the shimmering water becomes the site of unhealthy competition amongst her students...
The performance of Green as the worshiped teacher and mentor carries this tension and gives weight to the disparity between the beautiful and the miserably ugly. Miss G acts the part of the charismatic leader, the model of enlightened womanhood to her girls, but the façade is never...
On Thursday, Catherine B. Lord ’71—a visual artist, writer, curator, and intellectual focusing on queer theory, feminist history, and colonialism—will receive the Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medal. Within a matter of days she will publish an article arguing that Valerie Solanas...
Lord was quick to qualify the criticisms from Meyer and others levelled at her work on Solanas. “I don’t think it’s right to shoot people, unless you really, really have to,” she says. “But nonetheless...