Sacha Polak's Dirty God and the Politics of Authenticity
Dutch director Sacha Polak’s Dirty God (2019) is the first narrative film with a female lead whose scars are real, and arguably the first to tackle the assumption that scars (especially on a woman’s body) are shameful or tragic. Vicky Knight, who plays Jade, a young woman rebuilding her life af...
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Milano University Press
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Cinéma & Cie |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/cinemaetcie/article/view/17384 |