There is something magical about the way Andrea Arnold uses pop music within the diegesis. In 2017, the British filmmaker penned one of the decade's finest cinematic moments in American Honey: the famous scene of the first encounter between protagonists Star and Jake in a random supermarket, whose mise-en-scène is crafted around Rihanna's mega-hit We Found Love. Then, in her 2021 documentary Cow, she edited a scene where one of the two heifers is courted (and mounted) by a bull to the beats of Kali Uchis's Tyrant.

Flavia Dima

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Film critic & journalist. Collaborates with local and international outlets, programs a short film festival - BIEFF, does occasional moderating gigs and is working on a PhD thesis about home movies. At Films in Frame, she writes the monthly editorial - The State of Cinema and is the magazine's main festival reporter.

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