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A guest post from Double X writer Caryn James:
With stylish women flaunting recessionista chic and Michelle Obama
embracing her modest roots—“my parents were working class people,” she
repeats in speeches—it may seem like a timely advance that a flurry of
independent films (in theaters and on DVD) are depicting those
forgotten heroines, working-class women. In Wendy and Lucy, a deglamorized Michelle Williams lives out of her car while driving to Alaska in search of a job. There’s Frozen River, with Melissa Leo in her Oscar-nominated role as a trailer-park single mom, and Julia, with Tilda Swinton playing a downwardly spiraling alcoholic.
These movies are unsentimental and wonderfully realistic on the
surface, but take a closer look: why is every one of these heroines... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Dear XX Factor readers: We want to introduce you to a new interview feature we'll be running on Double X, the our forthcoming web magazine expanding out from XX Factor. "Ask, Tell" will be a regular interview with writers, actors, filmmakers, and more. Our first interview is with Tilda Swinton, whose new film Julia is the story of an alcoholic who, in desperation, kidnaps a boy to extort money.
For each interview, we'd like to include questions from you, our dear readers. So, if you have a question for Tilda Swinton, send it to me at morourkexx@gmail.com by 1 p.m. tomorrow.
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