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Daisy Leigh-Phippard

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Daisy Leigh-Phippard is a British filmmaker and critic with a background in theatre, fairy tale and classical civilisation. She has been a Staff Writer for Screen Queens since December 2018.

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Air Doll (2009) 66% EDIT “Air Doll is an adult fairy tale that calls into question the purpose of life and belonging in a way just as pure as it is tragic. It is a heart-warming rite of passage before it becomes a gruesome disaster.” – Screen Queens Jan 25, 2023 Full Review After Yang (2021) 89% EDIT “As the credits roll, you do wonder if the film is philosophical to a fault. Columbus was just as wanderingly cerebral, but maybe because the most integral character departs us so soon, After Yang remains mystifying in a way the director’s debut avoided. ” – Screen Queens Jan 25, 2023 Full Review The Princess (2022) 62% EDIT “It’s a story somewhat at the mercy of its budget, but one that celebrates sisterhood, ambition and centuries of fairy tales about women finding a way to escape their perils.” – Screen Queens Jan 25, 2023 Full Review Beloved (2022) 100% EDIT “Beloved is a tender, slow-going film that thrives on the technical strengths of its director.” – Screen Queens Jan 25, 2023 Full Review The Handmaiden (2016) 96% EDIT “While its a feat of technical brilliance and visual genius, its the way Park uses his story to force his audience to question their assumptions that made me speechless the first time I saw it.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review How I Live Now (2013) 65% EDIT “Im not saying the impending possibility of a world war three is a good thing for young people. But we all know the trend of dystopian films was sparked by the fear that some of us were going to see the world literally explode.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Frida (2002) 77% EDIT “Taymors film doesnt shy away from Fridas struggles and her fierce determination to continue despite them. But it also delves into the real spirit of a painter, and the politics that turn the tides of culture.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Stardust (2007) 77% EDIT “What Stardust tries to say isnt so much about fighting your way to superiority, but letting your whimsy lead you to where you should be. Why fight to be accepted by people you dont actually want to be like?” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Isle of Dogs (2018) 90% EDIT “Anderson tried to make space for culture but the argument still holds that the film certainly comes from a Western perspective; its complex communication study, while creative, is not designed to be absorbed by those that speak both English and Japanese.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review The Company of Wolves (1985) 85% EDIT “Directed by Irish filmmaker and author Neil Jordan, the film remakes this classic story into a fairy-tale-meets-B-movie-horror film that has just as much bite as its bark when it comes to updating the original power dynamics for a contemporary audience.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review The Assassin (2015) 80% EDIT “This epic and yet claustrophobic and contained film obsesses over deep layers of tree branches twisted over each other, towering mountain walls with gaping caves at their roots, hills rising up in the misty distance as the gradient slowly pales.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Columbus (2017) 96% EDIT “Columbus just let me watch two people fumble through their lives and let me feel for them. It asks us to acknowledge the intellectual facts but make our own intuitive conclusions about what they should do, and how they and we feel.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019) 100% EDIT “This is about Season 8 of Game of Thrones, intrinsically. We follow the eight-month build of Kings Landing that will soon be rubble, we see the table reads and the logos plastered everywhere but its about showing that there are no small parts too.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) 96% EDIT “Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in heels. Alice didit in corsets and with no clear rules about how to even go about creating cinema. Businesswoman and artist both, the first female filmmaker is revealed in full glory.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Vagabond (1985) 100% EDIT “Its underlying commentary sprouts from the French youths feelings of betrayal from older generations, but it also seems to say this: men fear a woman who chooses her own path.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Ashes in the Snow (2018) 56% EDIT “Its ultimately confused about what it wants to be and who its about, likely leaning too faithfully on its literary inspiration text. But it is an important story to tell, and will hopefully attract attention from a teenage audience.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review The Thief Lord (2006) 50% EDIT “Rewatching The Thief Lord as an adult maybe reveals how its dated since its 2005 release, but the same heartfelt magic of the story rings true, and I cant help but appreciate its message even more.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Once (2007) 97% EDIT “In the end, they were both strangers guided by the kindness they showed one another. And I bet youve forgotten what resolution the camera quality is by the end credits.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Gwen (2018) 71% EDIT “Despite its concise 84-minute run time, events run out of steam at the midpoint. Things are bleak but how much bleaker can they get?” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Judy & Punch (2019) 77% EDIT “A feminist retelling, a dark comedy, and an adaptation of a puppet show, Judy & Punch takes the opportunity to give voice to the voiceless, like so many fairy tales do.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Jojo Rabbit (2019) 81% EDIT “Its trying to question what youre taught, its trying to empathise with being villainised into something less than human, and its trying to give you the ability to laugh in the face of hate so that you have the strength to fight it. It does that.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review I Lost My Body (2019) 97% EDIT “Sounding bizarre yet? Im not going to convince you otherwise, but like so many of the quirks of French cinema, the film weaves together a thoughtful story to question how we can navigate our lives as individuals philosophically, but also literally.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) 95% EDIT “It might be pretty optimistic in its wholesomeness, but whats the point of the movies if they cant be? Especially in a film that is committed to its faithful and hopeful representation for a community that is almost never shown on screen whatsoever.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Monstrum (2018) 94% EDIT “Huh Jong-Hos monster movie has all the chronicled period traits you could want, he just throws a cool, potentially-non-existent tiger-monkey-beast into the mix with some cool sequences that feel closer to a video game than a film.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review Snowpiercer (2013) 94% EDIT “If you needed any more convincing of Bongs versatility as a director, credit should be given to the fact that this is an English-language film from a Korean director, that uses language and cultural perspective as a tool in the movies very storytelling.” – Screen Queens Feb 21, 2022 Full Review
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