Director Paloma Schneideman explores issues of consent and queerness in coming-of-age film set in New Zealand In Big Girls Don’t Cry, the New Zealand coming-of-age film quietly devastating film festivals, there is a scene on a moonlit beach. It features the main character, Sid, played by Ani Palmer, and one of the cool older city boys who has come to the small, golden-sand town of Ōmaha for the summer. It is a deeply relatable, deeply uncomfortable watch; reliving the teenage negotiation – or not – of consent feels unsettling and validating. “Yeah, an 18-year-old at the screening last night said, ‘I feel so seen and exposed,” director and writer Paloma Schneideman, 34, says. “I was like, whoa, that’s quite an astute way to think about it. One is cathartic and healing, and the other is quite confronting.” Continue reading... from The Guardian https://ift.tt/jXEyKTC via IFTTT
President and other top leaders evacuated from the annual dinner after an unspecified threat
“The president will be having a press briefing at the White House in 30 minutes – that is not a joke,” Weijia Jiang, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, just told the room full of reporters.
“And he insists that we will reschedule this event in 30 days and that he wanted to continue, despite the news, but has to follow security protocol.”
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