Femme Review | An Edge-of-Your-Seat Queering of the Neo-Noir Crime Thriller
Femme follows drag queen Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) as he seeks revenge on the man who physically assaulted him (George MacKay) outside the club.
With Femme, Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping solidify themselves as a directing duo to watch. In centering gay characters in a neo-noir thriller about revenge, the filmmakers (who are making their feature directorial debut) go where no one has really gone before, effectively painting a bright and exciting future for LGBTQ+ cinema. But more than just queering a beloved genre, the film offers a sharp meditation on the mercurial nature of identity: whether gay or straight, cis or trans, consciously or subconsciously, publicly or privately, we are constantly performing who we are at any given moment.
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