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From Thelma and Louise to Animals: how female friendships on screen got real


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From Thelma and Louise to Animals: how female friendships on screen got real

By Cath Clarke

 

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Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat in Sophie Hyde’s hedonistic comedy Animals. Photograph: Tamara Hardman/Allstar/Bonsai Films

 

When did you last see a film with a friendship between two women that felt real, a friendship that didn’t play second fiddle to romance in the narrative arc, that was not trampled over or cast aside in the quest for true love?

 

Love stories about female friends are vanishingly rare.

 

But this summer, Olivia Wilde’s gorgeous coming-of-age story Booksmart arrived on screen.

 

Now comes Animals, the director Sophie Hyde’s hedonistic Irish comedy about two best friends, underemployed graduates in their early 30s working as coffee-shop baristas. 

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/02/sequins-eyeliner-and-loos-how-female-friendships-on-screen-got-real

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