Girlhood and film
A new essay on Annie Baker's Janet Planet
Hello hello,
It's been a while! I'll be back properly in the coming year. In the meantime, a brief update:
- I have an essay out in The Baffler today about Annie Baker’s incredible Janet Planet, the stakes of a girl's gaze and how she can grow up.
- It's clear the representation of girlhood has been on my mind for a while now. It’s so fraught, so slippery. Earlier this year, I wrote about why Ozu doesn't portray girls for The New York Review Books, and how he thinks through the idea of convenience.
- And I wrote about the idea of "niceness" and monstrosity in Chabrol's La Cérémonie and Bong's Parasite for Orion, which, now that I think about it, is about how we approach a particular brand of girlishness and the concept of 'natural' ease.
Happy summer,
Moeko