We should have seen this coming. After “Promising Young Woman” made a splash at Sundance two years ago, the festival was bound to feature more films (cl)aiming to undermine expectations and play with films tropes to craft a fiercely feminist take-down of the patriarchy.
At this year’s festival, that film is “FRESH,” directed by Mimi Cave and written by Lauryn Kahn. This time, however, we are unlikely to experience the months and months of online discourse that Emerald Fennell’s film unleashed, as “FRESH” unthinkingly falls into all kinds of regressive and reactionary traps without leaving much space for discussion or disagreement.
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