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You know those movies that are both entertaining but important also? Well, I think this is an important movie for girls and women to see in the sense it reveals society's discrimination against 'the weaker sex,' with everything from appealing clothes they should wear, the indoctrination into girlhood and womanhood, and the subservient role many females play in a male-dominated society.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/15/23
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Raven Adamson as Legs is killing it! She's really charming, and brought her character effortlessly. Cool movie!
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/04/23
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I struggled to stay interested in this. The lack of experience in the cast really shows. Good Timber Timbre soundtrack though!
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
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A reasonable but long and slow film and I found the subject quite irritating. Definitley not one I would want to see again but was worth watching just the once.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
02/25/23
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This French-British-Canadian drama written and directed by Laurent Cantet, is the second film adaptation of the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993), after the Annette Haywood-Carter's version in 1996. The cast included very talented young actors, Katie Coseni as Madeleine (Maddy, Wirtz), Raven Adamson as Margaret (Legs, Sadovsky), Madeleine Bisson as Rita O'Hagan, Claire Mazerolle as Goldie, Paige Moyles as Lana, Rachael Nyhuus as Violet Kahn, Lindsay Rolland-Mills as VV... and all of them were very refreshing to watch.
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The 143 minutes long feminist story is happening in the United States in 1955, and five girls from the local school decide to organize themselves in a gang in order to fight against the treatment of females and the influence of men over women. The length of the story could be shorter for at least 15 minutes without losing much of it. I liked the recreation of the era which was amazingly successful. On the other hand the feel of the movie was that is, as I already mentioned, overlong and sometimes relies on the force rather than reasoning for solution of the problems which becomes boring because simply repeats itself, over and over!
If you are ready for a different "growing up" story of not so common teenagers which becomes stale towards the end, check it out, if you must!
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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In the fifties upstate New York, Legs (Raven Adamson) is an athletic, charismatic girl with feminist ideals about female pride and solidarity who eventually leads a street gang of girls from troubled backgrounds. The girls see themselves as feminists and every man as a potential enemy. Maddy (Katie Coseni), a wannabe writer, chronicles the gang's exploits on a battered typewriter, drawn to the charismatic Legs. After serving a stint in a juvenile detention center, Legs pays the first three months on a rundown house and moves the rest of the gang in to the premises, forming a radical commune. To fund their lifestyle, the girls seduce and rob men of their wallets. Legs, however, has bigger ideas and begins to formulate a plan to kidnap a wealthy businessman...
Joyce Carol Oates' 1993 novel has previously been adapted in a 1996 version, notable only for providing an early leading role for Angelina Jolie. The film differs from the novel in many ways, most notably the change of setting from 1950s upstate New York to the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. In the film, most of the Foxfire members come from comfortable suburban families; in the novel, they are working class girls from the "wrong side of the tracks" whose families suffer from domestic problems such as child abuse and alcoholism. The novel also covers a period of about three and a half years, while the film's action takes place during the course of a few weeks.
Laurent Cantet (The Class) crosses the Atlantic for his version of "Foxfire". Re-appropriating a traditionally male genre, the film's female perspective highlights the inequality between the sexes during the period, whilst also trying to show the girls to be worthy adversaries to their male counterparts with a hint at Francis Ford Coppola´s "The Outsiders". I was hoping for an emotional journey and strong performances in "Foxfire", but this way too long coming of age story suffers first of all from theatrical and not very convincing acting from all involved. Cantet leaves us with a cold, objective look upon all characters committing all sorts of horrible acts and when every male character is portrayed as sleazy would-be rapists I simply can´t buy into the story that becomes so overbalanced on one side it´s ridiculous. The girls themselves are not very likeable either, which creates even further problems in the protagonist/ antagonist structure within the film. And a small detail such as Adamson spending half of the movie with a seriously bad wig on her head, doesn´t help either. Cantet´s direction takes the film not even close to where it should´ve gone. "Foxfire" is a disappointing one.
Rated 2.5/5 Stars •
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/21/23
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