READ IT FIRST
FILM
Sally Rooney’s best-selling
Normal People, the novel that
has been on the nightstand
of every book lover since its
2018 debut, gets the Hulu
treatment this month: New-
comers Daisy Edgar-Jones
and Paul Mescal are exactly
who we imagined as the
on-screen actualization of
complicated on-again,
off-again couple Marianne
and Connell. Cancel all
plans, stock up on tissues,
and prepare to binge watch
this modern, heartbreaking
coming-of-age love
story, starting April 29.
Feminine Mystique
ART
On April 5, MoMA PS1 presents the first New York exhibition
of the French-American artist and activist Niki de Saint Phalle,
whose exuberant paintings and sculptures often expressed
the social-political ethos of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. (Favorite
topics included women’s rights and climate change.) With
over 100 works, the retrospective is an ode to her activism art.
It’s Their Time
FILM
Come for badass female leads, stay for ... badass female leads:
Ana de Armas (you last saw her in Knives Out, in a role that nabbedher a Golden Globe nom) and Lashana Lynch (who played Captain
Marvel’s wingwoman in the 2019 eponymous action flick) explode
onto the big screen in the latest James Bond installment, not as 007’slove interests but as secret agents who are key to his mission.
No Time to Die (United Artists Releasing) busts into theaters April 10.SWEET REVENGE
FILM
Carey Mulligan is the feminist vigilante you never
knew you needed in Promising Young Woman (April
17, Focus Features). She stars as Cassie, a med-
school dropout seeking vengeance on men who prey
on women at bars. Mulligan masterfully toes the line
between slightly unhinged and #MeToo watchdog
in this highly stylized, totally unapologetic Sundance
film, directed by Killing Eve’s Emerald Fennell.
Carey
Mulligan is
coming for
misogyny
in Promising
Young
Woman.Change your
perspective
at the new
Niki de
Saint Phalle
exhibit.Daisy
Edgar-
Jones
and Paul
Mescal in
Normal
PeopleLynch,
Lashana
Lynch.
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