Sünder is a shop window for Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku

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A Ryan Coogler film can be a Michael B. Jordan film like a Ryan Coogler film. The endless charismatic actor performed in all films by the director and this time has been twice as high as twins in his latest Smash Smoke and Stack. sinner. Jordan plays to his strengths and moved stubborn characters such as Killmonger and Adonis Creed with lovable warmth, and he grants Coogler’s work-independent from the scale-one film star shimmer. After sinner‘S explosive opening weekend, all eyes are aimed at the female actors of the film, which steal almost every scene in which they are present in Coogler’s ring. Consider the introduction of Smokes estranged wife Annie, played by Marvel Alumna Wunmi Mosaku. Annie is a Hoodoo healer who lives on the edge of the city, her magic our first real view of somewhat different world long before the vampires penetrate. Because of their forces – in the protection, in the heels and in the impact – – sinner Grants her true authority: Rauch leaves Annie. The two have lost a child and their grief is a fixed room between them. Your bitter reunion gives way to the first sex scenes of the film, a raw moment of romance, which not only has lust, but also loss and longing. Smoke never leaves his brother’s side, but it is Annie he wants in his orbit. That applies to sinner Even – although it focuses on its male leads, the film would not exist without the influence of women on both the screen and in real life.

On paper the female characters in sinner are films on their male love interests, but women work as independent characters and form their own relationships. During Cooglers Black panther Films have large casts with countless female characters and Believe And Fruitvale The station has strong domestic partnerships. We don’t have him yet as he does as in sinner – Four relationships at the center of the supernatural action and social comment. Not different from Annie, Stack’s ex-lover Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) feels despised after he was left in Mississippi for seven years while he came to Chicago for money. What defines the redemption of Smoke and Stack is less how they treat each other and more how they correct their relationships with their former partners who are just as freely devoted to and are idiosyncratic. Annie comes to represent what is magical and divine, while Maria’s temptation brings the night into chaos. But because of Coogler’s frame, Mary, saw a white -basket woman, but an alleged outsider, in a vampire. It destroys any chance that she and stack had together for a future – unless she can bring it to her side. Every big female figure becomes a decisive force in every relationship in the film: Mary Sealing Stack’s fate, smoke, who decides to follow Annie to death, Pearline encouraged Sammies wish to fight for his family, and Grace takes her husband out in a literal fire of glory.

That the women of sinner It is undoubtedly also attributed to the audience since the opening weekend fascinated how Coogler presents them physically. sinner marks his third collaboration with the costume designer Ruth E. Carter, who was the first black woman to win the Oscar for her costume design Black panther. The audience reacted to the open horniness of the film, not only because the actors are hot, but also because the costumes are rightly sexy: perfectly tailor -made suits, skin -density silky dresses, color -coded hats. It is not a particularly sexual graphic film – most of it has to do with vampires that gnaw at human necks – so that the horniness is mainly about how the film exceeds in the craft.

The camera present is thanks to the cameraman Autumn Durald Arkapaw – the third cinema man, with whom Coogler worked in his five feature films. The women go from shiny and elegant during the musical sequence to sweat and blood while the night descends into hell. Durald Arkapaw’s sharp eye for intimacy, even in such a large format-sie, is the first woman who shot in 15 Pro Imax 65 mm-that we see the circles, the Annie’s eyes, the lustful sugar of Maria’s Lippe, and Grace’s Fury when she exploits a Molotow cocktail into the carnage.

Coogler called even more women who, for his impressive vision, in a long, big thank you, whom he shared on Instagram on April 22nd American honeyFor example and the economic precarity that pulsates through Dacostas).

sinner‘S Press Tour has reminded everyone how much fun someone who speaks about a film, whether it is Steinfeld and Jordan’s Flirty Banter, Mosaku’s affection for her character or Jayme Lawson’s hope is that she is proud of her ancestors. It is a refreshing quality, these actors, especially Steinfeld and Mosaku, who have suffered the Marvel and IP economy, to laugh and joke by promoting a project of this original and lively. The chemistry between the actors is obvious (thanks, fan changes), with the camaraderie crossing the script. The film is triumphant, but the women are essentially – they cannot distract their eyes from them.