From Rapunzel trapped up in her tower to legions of scream queens hitting high decibels, the damsel in distress trope is long rooted in sweet, helpless characters incapable of staying out of trouble.
“Damsel,” David and Nathan Zellner’s follow-up to David Zellner’s delightfully strange art-house sleeper “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” (2014), begins with a tour de force scene in Monument Valley in ...