It takes awhile before we get to not just the heart of documentarian and cinematographer Julie Lunde Lillesæter’s feature directorial debut “An Army of Women,” but the actual plot of it. The filmmaker spends precious early minutes introducing us to subjects (both named and unnamed), reams of legal papers, and the lingering sense we’re about to watch something wrenching unfold. But that seeming disorganization and unwieldiness might be the point of this entire exercise because what Lillesæter is about to spin over the course of a surprisingly economical 84 minutes is a story about disorganization, unwieldiness, and misdirection — and what happens when we don’t simply give in to such confusion.
When Lillesæter does get to the story at hand, it’s gobsmacking. “An Army of Women” chronicles the protracted progress made by a 2018 class action lawsuit that accused the city of Austin, Travis County, the Austin Police Department,...
When Lillesæter does get to the story at hand, it’s gobsmacking. “An Army of Women” chronicles the protracted progress made by a 2018 class action lawsuit that accused the city of Austin, Travis County, the Austin Police Department,...
- 3/12/2024
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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