As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the spirits (Orishas in the Yoruba tradition), receiving much needed inspiration and assurance in a dream. The film combines beautifully intimate still and moving images of the woman’s body and home space, along with playful stop-motion sequences. —Jacqueline Stewart, UCLA Film and Television Archive
The Safety of Objects
2002
6.5/10
Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
7.1/10
The Trials of Cate McCall
2013
6.4/10
Lucky Them
2013
6.0/10
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
7.0/10
Iron Jawed Angels
2004
6.8/10
The Girl in the Book
2015
5.8/10
I Believe in Unicorns
2015
6.6/10
Holy Lands
2019
6.1/10
Strange Weather
2016
5.9/10
Hounddog
2008
6.5/10
The Truth About Emanuel
2013
5.9/10
A Dry White Season
1989
6.7/10
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999
6.4/10
TalhotBlond
2012
6.3/10
Sky
2016
6.2/10
Return
2011
6.4/10
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
1998
7.2/10
Helen
2009
6.5/10
The Poker House
2008
6.2/10
The Company of Strangers
1990
7.1/10
