Signature Move

Signature Move was well-received at its world premiere at Austin's SXSW Film Festival. It is a beautiful film. As the director alluded to in her introduction, the film is a lesbian love story between a Pakistan- American Muslim immigration lawyer and Mexican-American bookstore owner in a peaceful diverse Chicago. Basically, it is about everything Donald Trump hates! More seriously, it is about a diverse multicultural melting pot where people of different cultures come together and learn from each other and grow and sometimes come to love each other. The film is well-acted and the script is quite subtle. I particularly enjoyed the performances of Fawzia Mizra as Zaynab and Shabbana Azmi as her mother. The family relationship as Zaynab gradually figures out how to share her true self with her traditional mother is compelling. There are parts of the story that are a little too predictable, but basically it very enjoyable and a great anecdote to today's mean-spirited political climate.

Interesting film, with great characters.

It has great representation for the LGB community.

It was good to see the dynamics of family life being tied in with this. Alongside bringing in two different cultures, and some back story of them across generations.

The wrestling was also awesome 👌.

I loved the mum and her binoculars too.

At the end we could have seen a little more about the mother - daughter relationship between the main character and her mother and how that develops.

Overall quite a heart warming film.

I loved the ending, with the main characters "signature" move, it was the perfect way to end the film.

This movie has a 100% On Rotten Tomatoes and an 89% audience score, so this poor rating here does not reflect how good the film actually is. One fairly unhinged review on this movie is tanking the IMDb score unfairly and that's so annoying cause this movie deserves every award it won and then some.

I was suspended by how much I liked this film. It was heartwarming and enjoyable to watch. I think 89% is the perfect score for it.

I think it's biggest (only?) fault is the Lucha plot feels shoe horned in. I feel like Lucha Libre wasn't really given the respect it deserved and served as little more than a quirky plot device. I would be absolutely floored to find out anyone in the cast/writing team actually knows much about Lucha.

Otherwise this was a really great film and definitely worth a watch.

It is a really funny and relaxing film. It really make me laugh. And especially love the mom part, which introduced the conflicts between old immigrants and the new elements. It make people reflect these serious topic in the laughters. Nice work! Also Shabana Azim and Fawzia Mirza really interpreted their roles perfectly!

This is a new queer classic! I loved everything about this movie. It was funny, and sweet, and just awesome! Can't wait to see more from the folks who made it, we need more uplifting tales like this!