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Our review of Roar: Eight Feminist Fables on Apple TV+

2022-04-15T05:18:36.655Z


CRITICISM – The interpretation of Nicole Kidman or that of Cynthia Erivo save this surrealist anthology on feminine fears and doubts which, alas, fails to form a powerful whole.


“In a woman's life are the seeds of a western, a romantic comedy, a psychological thriller, a horror movie.

It only takes a moment to switch from one atmosphere to another, as our series does

,” sums up Liz Flahive.

Co-creator of the feminist wrestling comedy

Glow

, abruptly canceled by Netflix shortly after the first confinement of spring 2020, the screenwriter bounces back at Apple TV + with this anthology of fears, obstacles, rites of passage that mark out female existence.

Based on short stories by Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern,

Roar

“roars” on issues of motherhood, misogyny, identity, guilt, beauty, powerlessness.

And debauchery to do this with great sizes: Cynthia Erivo, Nicole Kidman, Alison Brie…

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Six very free adaptations rub shoulders with two unpublished fables.

Jack-of-all-trades, these stories have the common thread of having a heroine torn between her ambitions and her environment, who rebels and whom the camera never leaves...

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Source: lefigaro

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