From the grief - stricken Kristen Stewart contemplating the existence of her own spirituality as Maureen
in Personal Shopper to the burgeoning determination that manifests slowly but surely
in Mildred Loving's (Ruth Negga) incorrigible spirit
in Loving as she seeks justice for her so - deemed illegal interracial marriage, to the existential despair of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon)
in A Quiet Passion that is largely shaped by the suffocating
position women had to endure
in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display
in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their
lonely fictional
worlds.