Eva and I have been doing a film study of sorts

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Mostly this is because we needed something to study so I can get a few months of writing work with her before she hies off to high school, and she wasn't interested in anything conventional.

Not that she's terribly interested in movies, but if I remember I can make popcorn.

Thus far we've watched Sweeney Todd, Billy Elliot, The Sound of Music, and (tonight) West Side Story. At her behest I think we're going to end up with Black Panther next week. She strongly didn't like West Side Story....

Any other suggestions?

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Local Hero is a perfect movie.

April and the Extraordinary World---Jaques Tardi's visual style is interesting, this is based on that, and if you can get hold of The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec the movie it is a very toned-down version of the comic books (French, but subtitled, I don't think it's been dubbed). Blanc-Sec is a smoking, drinking investigative journalist in a Belle Epoque Paris plagued by mad scientists and mummies, pterodactyls, and other small problems. The movie centers on something not stressed much in the comics at all (kind of a sexist dumbing-down in a way), her relationship with her sister. Good silly fun, IMO.

If you have Kanopy, she might like Faces Places with Agnes Varda. Agnes and her pal go around France committing Art. It's not a high-stakes film and it isn't long. (Kanopy)

Taika Waititi's Boy is on Kanopy, you might find a rummage through their list helpful. They have Ocelot's Les contes de la nuit (silhouette animation), very beautiful, and I think I saw Kirikou and the Sorceress there.

Baahubali parts one and two are I think still on Netflix or maybe it was Amazon. Fast forward through the ridiculous battle scenes, stay for the great women characters. As the eponymous main character is a god incarnated, it's a little hard to complain about his grandstanding and making everything about him.

ETA: If she likes animation and fairy tales, Triplets of Belleville is an interesting update: a young man is stolen by fairies kidnapped and taken to Fairyland America, where he is imprisoned in an enchantment gangster hangout, forced to empty the sea with a sieve ride an endless bicycle race. His grandmother must undertake the quest to rescue him.

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These are all movies I haven' heard of, thanks :)