Sentences with phrase «film about women»

An incredible, chilling film about a woman who has been kidnapped and locked in a room away from human interaction.

Not that men are incapable of making great films about women.

There is a disproportionate number of films about women in the lineup, which seems to indicate that the film that will benefit most from that would be Lady Bird.

Whilst Jane Campion has a tradition of making films about women in a men's world, I felt this film failed to be a hard hitting feminist discourse, mainly because the story was so ordinary.

My ex-husband, William Friedkin, doesn't make films about women.

Together they head out to Miami for a wild trip in the vein of films like Bridesmaids and Mom's Night Out which have ushered in more films about women doing whatever the hell they want.

This one is titled simply Eve, a short film about a woman trying to survive alone in a post-apocalyptic London wasteland.

«FIRE MAY BE SUBTLE» Three leads, two male and one female, are being cast in this short film about a woman whose psyche suffers a major break after the death of her boyfriend.

-- «Maborosi» (1995): Japanese director Kore - eda Hirokazu's film about a woman dealing with her husband's suicide is a small film with large impact.

Intense psychodrama in this Italian film about a woman who recall her past abuse by a pedophilia father.

She is currently developing a feature film about women's fear of commitment, for which her short film, Loose Ends, is currently making festival rounds.

Greta Gerwig, Julianne Moore and Ethan Hawke star in Rebecca Miller's witty, invigorating film about a woman's attempt to become pregnant

Playing the next day is Liza The Fox Fairy, an award - winning Hungarian film about a woman's bad luck (and we mean really bad) with dating that looks reminiscent of Jean - Pierre Jeunet's dark comedies.

Bureaucratic oath: Feng Xiaogang's film about a woman seeking a divorce shows the labyrinthine realities of today's China, but not much else

I'm willing to bet that if more major publications hired more female film critics, then more films by women (which, surprise, surprise, are often films about women) would get the kind of critical buzz that leads to box office clout.

The latest instance was Isabelle Huppert's nomination for Elle — an unforgettable film about a woman's response to being raped, but one that wasn't even shortlisted for the best foreign - language film Oscar.

So I can't criticize the Cannes film fest for not having more films BY women when there are so many films ABOUT women.

The list is also missing several directors that have only made a single best - picture nominee so far, including people like Denis Villeneuve, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jean - Marc Vallée — all of whom have also made powerful films about women.

Buried far, far beneath the empty hubris and soapy melodrama of the thin plot in Jim Sheridan's The Secret Scripture, there's a fascinating film about women's rights in 1920's...

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Sherlock star has signed on to join Emma Stone (The Amazing Spider - Man 2) and Charlie Hunnam (Pacific Rim) in the haunted - house film about a woman who begins to question her husband's true identity.

«Two Days, One Night,» Dec. 24 Oscar and 2014 New York Film Critics Circle winner Marion Cotillard stars in this Belgian film about a woman who will lose her job if she fails to convince her colleagues to turn down bonuses they all accepted despite knowing she'd be dismissed.

There is a short film that inspired The Nancy Starling (the fictional movie within Their Finest), which is a short film about a woman played by Peggy Ashcroft, who goes to help rescue her husband from Dunkirk (Channel Incident, 1940).

And you could even lump The Post in with the cadre of films about women striking back at the patriarchy through Kay Graham's willful choice to ignore the advice of her (male) lawyers and board members and publish the Pentagon Papers.

Of the three current films about women («Moonlight and Valentino» and «How to Make an American Quilt» are the others), this is the least introspective but the most fun.

says an empowered Nora (Marie Leuenberger) to her thunderstruck husband (Max Simonischek), in Swiss director Petra Volpe's wonderful new film about the women's suffrage movement and struggle for voting rights in 1970s Switzerland, The Divine Order.

Paul Verhoeven's reputation as a master of provocation was certainly burnished by this French film about a woman — Isabelle Huppert, earning her first Oscar nomination with a performance that's equal parts scary and seductive — who survives a rape in her own home and then spends the rest of the film setting a leisurely trap for her unseen attacker.

The Divine Order is a heartfelt and captivating film about women demanding their right to an equal voice.

2008 was a great year both for films helmed by women and films about women at the Sundance film festival.

In her corner: Reese does her best dramatic work in a very fine moving film about a woman who has let her life slip away But... enthusiasm does nt seem to be there for the film

The fellowship will allow Rahmanian to continue working on a dramatic feature - length film about a woman stranded in the desert with two small children, tentatively titled Snow.

Although Gilbert and Gubar concentrate their analysis on representations of madwomen and monster - women found in classical literature (much of which pre-dates the emergence of popular film), we submit that literature is a foundational antecedent to popular culture writ large, and thus provides fertile ground for exploring the origins of female madwomen and monsters and how they function as a narrative strategy in popular films about women lawyers.

«I hope we'll see more films about women and women's interactions.

There's Blue is the Warmest Colour — which seems to be the only kind of film about women the status quo can get behind.

«It's not that I only want to make films about women,» Lelio said, «but from my experience, I have been very interested in the women who play these characters.»

Director Ali Asgari's film about women in strict societies who fight for their right to have children unconventionally

Renée Zellweger is the charming modern heroine of this film about a woman deciding which man is right for her, her flirtatious boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) or her awkward and handsome family friend, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).

So when I saw a preview for a film about a woman who finds a dog and he becomes her constant companion I knew I had to see it: Darling Companion.

I think Scorsese was an inspired choice for a film about a woman's independence, because the proceedings avoid being weepy treacle, and are instead quite gritty, like most of his «typical» films.

So, again, films about women can succeed or fail, just as films about men can succeed or fail.

But a film about a woman discovering not just sex but joy is a wondrous thing.

She will next be seen in the Semi Chellas - helmed film American Woman, a film about the women who cared for Patty Hearst.

Corinealdi is in a film about a woman.

It's so rare to see a film about a woman, written by a woman and directed by a woman do so well during the awards season.

Andie Redwine was honored with The Hoosier Award for her work on «Paradise Recovered,» a film about a woman from a cloistered religious sect forced to view her community from a new perspective, which was partially shot in southern Indiana.

For a film about a woman who enjoys the the act of sex without actually being able to achieve orgasm, it's fittingly ironic how The Oh in Ohio manages to make us sense amusement without actually getting us to laugh out loud.

This is also a Film Festival that is run by women, and women directors and films about women, and family topics were front and center this year.

It was clearly sexism that got her the assignment: hire a woman to deal with a film about women.

A film about a woman returning to her hometown to win back a childhood sweetheart isn't a new idea.

«It's a film about a woman who refuses to take any... anymore,» he said.