Writer and director Nida Manzoor has shared her passion about period representation on screen ahead of the release of her new film, Polite Society. Read more 👉
with his mother at the breakfast table after she accidentally bleeds on his sheets and Manzoor was determined to keep that in the film.Metro.co.ukRia is an aspiring stuntwoman ‘It’s bizarrely something that happens to every woman every month all the time. And yet if you were an alien, you land on this planet, and you were like, “What are humans about?”, you wouldn’t know women have periods! So I’m super passionate about period representation, especially in an action movie.
‘With a film that is putting together so many genres, I really needed to make sure that the emotional heart – the emotional through line – was there, the characters felt complex and nuanced, and that the story between the two sisters was really resonating,’ she explained. ‘I remember growing up how it could be like, we hated each other, we were at each other’s throats, we would fight together, we’d have to fight in martial arts class, at school there was a kind of tension – but there was also so much love.Manzoor with her leading actresses, Kansara and Arya ‘I think there’s something so specific about a sister relationship that I feel that it’s so fun to get to show the darknesses and the light of that, and that was really important to me.
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