"David Michôd's "Christy" is a sports biopic that slowly morphs into an examination into the subtle ways a woman can be trapped into a cycle of emotional and physical domestic violence. Alice Winocour's Paris Fashion Week-set drama "Couture" is interested in how even though a women's bodies can currency, their hearts and minds are often ignored or belittled."
"Clocking in at two hours and fifteen minutes, this is an overstuffed film that tries to pack everything from Martin's Wikipedia into its bloated runtime, leaving most of the film's emotional weight for its ending. The boxing sequences are not filmed particularly well, and Sweeney, who appears couldn't even bother to tone up her arm muscles, doesn't sell herself as a boxer."
Several TIFF world premieres examine female autonomy under societal control, policing, and erasure through diverse genres. David Michôd's Christy follows boxer Christy Martin and shifts from sports biopic to an exploration of emotional and physical domestic violence, supplying a powerful final twenty minutes amid an overstuffed runtime. The boxing scenes suffer from weak staging and an unconvincing physical performance. Alice Winocour's Couture frames women's bodies as currency within Paris Fashion Week while exposing the dismissal of women's inner lives. Clement Virgo's Steal Away links contemporary immigration crises to the underground railroad and probes how fertility obsession can enable abuse.
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