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(The cast, with one notable exception, is entirely LGBTQ as well.)
This was not the pious applause you sometimes get at artier festival movies; this was a party.
As Eichner exhorted during the pre-show standing ovation forBros, Keep it going!
I want a longer ovation thanThe Whale!
Of the pair,The Woman Kingwears its representational burden more lightly.
The film has no anxieties about what it sets out to do.
Only at the very end did the anticipated criticism finally arrive.
(Eichners love interest is played by Hallmark hunk Luke Macfarlane.)
Then she stood up, shook her ass, and order was restored.
