Now Together is an eclectic almanac about what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century. Again, terrible localization. Tell it like a Woman is an absolutely incredible message placed in the faded “Now Together”. But we, brought up on "Only Girls In Jazz" and "Bachelor Party in Vegas," are not used to this.
The film received only one Oscar nomination - best song. And globally, Sophia Carson's track Applause is the only thing that makes cinema holistic. We are looking at 7 completely different stories. Each takes place in a separate country, made in a certain cinematic style, different directors and in different genres. All short films are still united by the figure of a woman, but very conditionally.
That’s the big plus of “Now Together.” Only in 1-2 stories, you can rest your forehead in a hyperbolized fem-message. In the rest, film essays are universal, and in place of the main characters it is quite easy to imagine a man (very suddenly for a movie with such an original name). At the same time, the message is unchanged - 7 stories about 7 women, shot by 7 women.
The film is full of stars like Cara Delevingne, Eva Longoria and Jennifer Hudson. The roles are quite familiar, except that Kara plays a stinking homeless woman, in the wilderness of whose souls brave women from the social services are trying to break through. The second chapter of the almanac is generally one of the strongest in the collection. Los Angeles is seen through the eyes of the most vulnerable, lost and vulnerable in society. The homage to doctors and social workers flows smoothly through the filter of Delevingne’s deeply repulsive look into a story of simple human grief. The medicine is good, and the cinema exposes the methodology of taming the wolf.
The 4th and 5th episodes were equally strong. In one of us, a handheld camera shows a week of a simple Japanese single mother drowning in the everyday circles of hell, but receiving the very (most important) award at the end. The story of an Italian veterinarian who sacrifices her own in Shakespearean fashion to save lives. The sad lesson is that any life equals any life, even if one of them is yours.
The episodes about a black prisoner and transgender torture in India were weaker. A lot more will be remembered for aesthetics. The other two stories - about a woman who suddenly became a mother, and an arthouse animation about a spurt from captivity - do not look superfluous, but do not improve the film.
Now Together is really a good movie. A healthy and compelling conversation about feminism, the fate of women in both hemispheres. A cardboard film in a good sense without excesses and hysterical intonations. And the English name reflects here the main meaning of the already very anachronistic message - "say it in a feminine way", only then it will reach men that their opinion is not necessary in everything.