When Will I Be Loved

What is fascinating and ingenious about When Will I be Loved is that nothing need be anticipated, not even the possibility of a con. In scenes of flawless timing, logic and execution, Vera improvises in a fluid situation....

...it's the film's deceptively playful tone and Toback's provocative illumination of sexual and identity politics that...aligns the film to Jean-Claude Brisseau's outstanding Secret Things.

Some of the best snapshot moments do convey the natural bump-and-grind intermingling of cultures, ambitions and conflicts of life in New York City...

This luxuriantly skanky story is, you see, a tale of female empowerment and payback!