The Nightingale
Director: Jennifer Kent
Country/Distributor: Australia/Canada/USA, IFC Films
Opening: August 2
NOT GONNA LIE, MY IMMEDIATE reaction after clapping eyes on British lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin) was, oh hey he’s cute… for a basic white guy. Questionable taste in men, as it happens, is not beside the point in , a movie whose languorous runtime affords ample mental space to reflect on one’s culpability. A disquisition is another kind of horror film, in which the monster has crept from the shadows of one woman’s psyche to brutalize the daylit social field. This creature’s name is colonialism, and, unlike the title character of Kent’s breakout, he is very much going to become a queer meme.
