Avant-Drag! review – queer artists light up the streets of Athens with joy and resistance

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Drag is a tool of self-expression and of protest in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the city’s vibrant underground art The queer defiance of Fil Ieropoulos’s kaleidoscopic documentary manifests not only through its subject, but also through its form. Centring on a group of drag performers and gender-nonconforming artists in Athens, this shape-shifting film celebrates a vibrant underground scene that thrives in a homophobic system, rife with state-sanctioned discrimination and violence. Introduced through an episodic structure, figures from the community light up the screen with their artistry and activism as they carve out a safe haven of their own. In each of the vignettes, we get a glimpse of both the joy and the peril of navigating the city as a queer person. Decked out in extravagant costumes and makeup inspired by Leigh Bowery, Kangela Tromokratisch struts in towering high heels, while her drag performances, with their vaudevillian feel, parody heteronormative ideals of motherhoo...
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At The 2022 Women In Film Honors Gala, Olivia Wilde Bares Her Midriff In A Skintight Black Dress

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The 38-year-old director and actress graced the red carpet in another breathtaking gown on Thursday night at the 2022 Women in Film Honors Gala in Beverly Hills, just over a month after she sported various elegant outfits to mark the launch of Don't Worry Darling. Dressed in a slender black floor-length Saint Laurent gown with two eye-catching embellishments, Wilde finished off the appearance by wearing black and gold bangles on each wrist in addition to black pointed sandals. The outfit included a hood and a midriff peekaboo cut-out. Wilde was a guest speaker at the event, and during one of the panels, she emphasized the challenges women face when working in the film industry. She stated that women working in the film industry require that community because it may sometimes be pretty challenging to have one's voice heard. The woman, a mother to two children, also revealed that while working on the movie Meadowland in 2015 with director Reed Morano, she witnessed how the crew appreciated her and learned from her. She wanted to see more women in positions of authority so that others might learn from them. Wilde's appearance at the weekday gala occurred shortly after she stunned the fan base during the Don't Worry Darling publicity tour in other breathtaking outfits. One of these outfits was a green sequined Valentino gown she wore to the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where she barely averted a potential spill on the red carpet. When she attended the Venice Film Festival in the past, she was seen wearing a favorite yellow Gucci dress with a deep V-neckline. The most recent event is not the first time Wilde has been seen in public wearing a cut-out style. She showed up at the performance that her boyfriend Harry Styles was playing in September at Madison Square Garden in New York City. She was donning a cut-out dress by Stella McCartney in white with a sheer top.

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