Sita Sings the Blues: Nina Paley

Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues sounds like the kind of film that was dreamed up in a particularly madcap mad-libs session: a combination of ancient Indian mythology, 1920s American blues, and a modern day break-up story in San Francisco/India/New York City. And yet, impossibly, it works. It doesn't just work, it works brilliantly, magically, majestically. Finding rhymes throughout all space-time in all aspects of the human experience, it's a mournful yet defiant shriek against how women have been thrust aside and abused by millennia of men.

Rating: 9/10