The world of professional wrestling has become a space where performance art and physical prowess intertwine in ridiculous fashion. Its pageantry is colourful and bombastic, but its status as a legitimate competitive sport is nebulous. It has become very easy to point the finger of suspicion at the American side of the sport, because there's a reason why Dwayne Johnson and John Cena have made it as actors: they've always been good at playing characters. Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams' sobering documentary from 2000, “Gaea Girls”, is the flipside of this argument; in looking at one of the WWE's Eastern counterparts (Gaea Japan), they draw a bloody, truthful portrait of what it means to reach for greatness, its subjects all real human beings who bleed and suffer both in and out of the ring.
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Longinotto is a filmmaker who...
- 3/8/2023
- by Simon Ramshaw
- AsianMoviePulse
She discusses her latest, award-winning documentary, about women in South Africa fighting for abused children
Kim Longinotto is in love. Not with just one person. And not in a sexual way. But she definitely loves the sound recordist on her latest film, the co-director she collaborated with in Iran, the anti-female-circumcision activist she worked with on The Day I Will Never Forget, all the teachers who so patiently held and calmed and reassured the damaged, excluded children of the Mulberry Bush school in her film Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go. She loves those damaged children too: Alex, the eight-year-old who tells his teacher he's going to kick her in the cunt; Michael, the 12-year-old who says there are "too many fucking arseholes in this fucking class". Longinotto's personality is like a long, warm bath. She loves almost everyone.
I arrive at her door, the cold whipping my back, the ridiculous,...
Kim Longinotto is in love. Not with just one person. And not in a sexual way. But she definitely loves the sound recordist on her latest film, the co-director she collaborated with in Iran, the anti-female-circumcision activist she worked with on The Day I Will Never Forget, all the teachers who so patiently held and calmed and reassured the damaged, excluded children of the Mulberry Bush school in her film Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go. She loves those damaged children too: Alex, the eight-year-old who tells his teacher he's going to kick her in the cunt; Michael, the 12-year-old who says there are "too many fucking arseholes in this fucking class". Longinotto's personality is like a long, warm bath. She loves almost everyone.
I arrive at her door, the cold whipping my back, the ridiculous,...
- 2/12/2010
- by Kira Cochrane
- The Guardian - Film News
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