Every generation rolls their eyes at the one after (who inevitably roll theirs back), but the striking thing about Dina Duma’s “Sisterhood,” which plants its eerily atmospheric growing-pains drama deep into Macedonian Gen-z culture and lights it up with phone screens and insta posts, is how depressingly little the pressures of coming of age have changed. For girls especially, the narrow, rocky pass between “virgin” and “slut” is as treacherous ever, only now it can cave in with a click. This truism makes Duma’s well-crafted, adeptly performed debut something of a paradox: The striking presentation signals her arrival as an accomplished new filmmaker; the story is stomach-drop familiar to the point of “oh no, not this again.”
“Stop being a child,” says Jana (Mia Giraud) irritably to Maya (Antonia Belazelkoska), who is toying with a lizard as they laze in the sunshine after a quick dip in clear waters.
“Stop being a child,” says Jana (Mia Giraud) irritably to Maya (Antonia Belazelkoska), who is toying with a lizard as they laze in the sunshine after a quick dip in clear waters.
- 9/1/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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