Movie Review: NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT

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NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT (Canada 2015) **
Directed by Mark Sawers

Starring: Ali Skovbye, Rekha Sharma, Kirsten Robek

Review by Gilbert Seah

NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT has been accurately described by The Globe and Mail paper as ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’ meets Michael Moore.

The film is done in a comedic documentary style, the way director Michael Moore does his films like WHERE TO INVADE NEXT. and BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. The subject is fictitious, that of a female society in which men have no place in – as in Margaret Atwood’s A HANDMAID’S TALE.

The film setting is 1953 where it is documented that a pregnancy has occurred without sex. There is no intercourse involving men fertilizing the female’s egg in the ovary. Director Mark Sawers centres his film on a character by the name of Andrew…