Gabrielle Marceau
Gabrielle Marceau is a writer and editor based in Toronto. She has written for Cinema Scope, Sight and Sound, and has a column on sex scenes in Leste Magazine. She is also the founding editor of In the Mood Magazine, a pop culture journal.
By Gabrielle Marceau
| July 1, 2021
The characters are constantly changing gears to manipulate, to elude, or to survive; the volatile X switches to an African dialect when eager to intimidate but turns smooth and appeasing when under threat, and Zola herself instantaneously snaps from sweet to hostile.
By Gabrielle Marceau
| April 7, 2021
Hopinka aims to show things clearly, and while this film doesn’t always match the thrilling visual impact of his experimental shorts, the result of this direct approach is a complex portrait of contemporary Indigenous life.