Able to balance such dramatic material a bittersweet poignancy on the freedom of life, it keeps you within its grip and leaves you on edge.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Alice rejects convention and may just find joy, even if it means going nuclear. Breathtaking.

| Jul 16, 2021

Working with a small budget, an available set - her own apartment - and a generous team, Mackerras has created an intriguing and complex mix of comedy, horror and tragedy.

| Aug 28, 2020

Certainly worth visiting as one of the more complex and sympathetic dramas about sex work that has been made in recent years.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2020

Good performances with moments in it, particularly with that strong first act...

| Aug 18, 2020

An increasingly nuanced drama about a woman put in an impossible situation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2020

Piponnier is... a lanky joy to watch, all awkward, flailing limbs and expressive Bambi eyes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2020

Alice is a well composed piece which features a great central performance from actress Emilie Piponnier but the overall trajectory of the tale is a little to clean-cut to resonate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2020

However, the story is fundamentally risible and strangely sanitised and it plays like a pretentious and po-faced version of Billie Piper's 온라인카지노추천 show Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2020

Women can and do make a good living as escorts, without the tragic end that male moralists earnestly imagine for them. But this is contrived and the ending is borderline absurd.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Whilst it's entertaining and there's much to admire, ultimate it feels a little too slim.

| Jul 21, 2020

Mackerras's sex-positive Alice is compelling in its direction as well as its writing, with impressive performances throughout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2020

A blistering attack on sexist double-standards, an ode to friendship, and a leftfield take on female empowerment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2020

Mackerras proves herself a confident storyteller, creating a central character that is realistically multi-dimensional.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 23, 2020

Despite numerous dramatic assets, Mackerras struggles to justify her runtime, stretching a short-film premise to frustrating degrees and challenging viewers to remain engaged.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 17, 2020

Audacious and richly textured, this French morality tale skillfully navigates some tricky narrative terrain.

| May 16, 2020

An enlightening escort tale set in the City of Light.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 15, 2020

It contains a fine performance from Pipponier, who makes Alice's transition from an unassuming housewife into a strong and assertive person absolutely convincing.

| May 15, 2020

Piponnier is phenomenal, putting in a meticulously reserved performance in what could very well have been a melodramatic role.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2020

A thinly sketched tale of female empowerment, pushing an unconvincing sex-positive agenda in which prostitution is a reasonable, relatively worry-free shortcut to financial emancipation.

| May 15, 2020