Period movies are often restrained by factuality, with directors and scriptwriters bending under the weight of history.
There’s also the case of movies that drastically revise history, imagining the worlds that could have been.
The film is set in 1937, long before Czechoslovakia was split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Still, things take an unexpected turn when an intersex baby is found dead on the factory site.
For Alois, the baby is a freak of nature that could derail his business plans.
However, as Helena learns about intersexuality, she slowly becomes more sympathetic to the people involved.
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This all reveals how the most well-intentioned people can still fail to understand intersexuality.
In the end, the human mind is too complex for anyone to reduce someones identity to their genitals.
And shine she does.
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One review is not enough to praise her performance andWe Have Never Been Modernas much as it all deserves.
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We Have Never Been Modernhad its world premiere at 2023s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
