Yes, I read that...the writing is nice, but I don't think the movie is probably as good as it it sounds in this review.
I really have no patience for the idea that because women menstruate, they are more "biological" "natural" or "irrational" or "weird" or what have you than men are, and although this review is full of pretty sentences and erudite references, I have no idea what point is actually being made in sentences like this: "it is so transcendentally misogynist that it fails to be applicable to any empirical woman that could ever exist." Is misogyny ever about an empirical woman?
I also don't care what we fail to discuss "collectively" about female bodily functions (even though I think pregnancy and menstruation get quite a lot of frank discussion where I come from)--men have their own sticky excretions that fail to get discussed except as playground potty punchlines. Neither disgust me or disturb me in the least, I'm afraid. I have no problem "squaring" menstruation with my experiences of anything, I like vaginas before AND after babies come out, the men I've been with don't seem to have a huge problem with blood, and if they do, I don't think it's because we don't have a Politburo laying down the decree about what's appropriate to feel.
It's a testament to Ms. Power's intelligence that she got so much out of that film, but hers is just an exceptionally neurotic reading of a film that I think is about anything but neurosis and is more about psychosis. Major depression with psychotic features.