Fantasia 2025 Review: THE BEARDED GIRL, A Young Girl Confronts Tradition In An Idyllic Country Circus

Fantasia 2025: The Bearded Girl Review: Hairy Family Dynamics

The Bearded Girl tells the coming-of-age story of a sideshow performer who must choose between embracing herself or what others expect of her. The post Fantasia 2025: The Bearded Girl Review: Hairy Family Dynamics appeared first on That Shelf.

'THE BEARDED GIRL' (Fantasia 2025) An equally quirky and authentic coming-of-age tale. - Reel News Daily

THE BEARDED GIRL Jody Wilson delivers a special film to Fantasia 2025 audiences with THE BEARDED GIRL. Cleo is the heir to a sideshow as the next Bearded Woman. Feeling conflicted about her future, Cleo rejects familial expectations to find herself. Inheriting a legacy from an overbearing and proud mother, Cleo wants to choose her path. After discovering a secret about her past, Cleo abandons her assigned responsibilities and heads out into the …

Fantasia 2025: Jody Wilson's 'The Bearded Girl' Shaves It's Own Path

You’d think that a fairy tale about a family of sideshow freaks that premieres at Fantasia would be squarely in horror territory, especially when you consider that it features at least one bloody ritual.But in writer-director Jody Wilson’s debut feature, The Bearded Girl, there is a clear mandate to do the unexpected thing at every turn and challenge your expectations of what a set of characters, particularly our leads Cleopatra (Anwen O’Driscol…

Fantasia 2025 Review: THE BEARDED GIRL, A Young Girl Confronts Tradition In An Idyllic Country Circus

Teenage rebellion threatens centuries of tradition when young Cleo questions her place in a long line of powerful circus performers in Jody Wilson’s feature directing debut, The Bearded Girl, celebrating its world premiere at Fantasia 2025. In an idyllic rural countryside there is a circus watched over by the commanding Lady Andre (Jessica Paré). She is the latest in the line of bearded ladies to have led nature’s oddities as they entertain the …