Tag Archives: the handmaid’s tale
2017 In Review…
As I very recently stated in my December favourites post for 2017 – Happy New Year everyone and welcome to 2018! I trust that everyone’s new year is off to a cracking start; at the very least, I hope everyone had a fantastic and fun New Year’s Eve and didn’t get too crazy. When reflecting […]
Search & Rescue #6
It’s time for another Search & Rescue! I’ve been finding lately that a lot of my search terms have been arriving in the form of a full question, and I’m loving that, because it means I can help people much better. Because if that’s not the function of a film blog, then I don’t know […]
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990): “Give me children, or else I shall die.”
Based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, The Handmaid’s Tale (1990, dir. Volker Schlöndorff) is set in a future America named the Republic of Gilead, where society has been reconstructed to preserve human life. After a destructive nuclear war, politics and society have been completely merged with religious doctrine to ensure that the […]
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