Searching Eva
LGBTQ+
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1h 24m
Directed by Pia Hellenthal • Documentary • With Eva Collé • 2019 • 84 minutes
Eva, 25, drifter, Berliner, pet-owner, poet, lesbian, sex worker, virgo, housewife, addict, feminist, model, declared privacy an outdated concept at the age of 14. This is the tale of a young woman growing up in the age of the internet, turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, challenging definitions of what a woman "should be“.
NYT Critic's Pick “A life untethered to anything but confidence — or at least the projection of it.” -- Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times
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