My viewings for the Films Directed by Women Challenge 2018
A log of my viewings for this challenge devoted to female film-makers that was hosted on the iCM Forum in March 2018.
Not listed on IMDb at time of viewing:
Features:
'L'orchidoclaste, Rudy Ricciotti vu par Laetitia Masson' (2013, Laetitia Masson) - 8.5/10
'Chocolat, une histoire du rire' (2016, Judith Sibony) - 7.5/10
'Herménégilde Chiasson, de ruptures en contraintes' (2016, Ginette Pellerin) - 8.5/10
'L'héritier' (2016, Édith Jorisch) - 6.5/10
Shorts:
'Great Castles of the Middle Ages' / 'Mediaeval Castles' (1950, Felicity Kinross) - 8/10 - 20 minutes
'Abstract film en couleurs' (1991, Cécile Fontaine) - 6.5/10 - 3 minutes
'De Kade' (2003, Barbara Meter) - 7/10 - 6 minutes
'Holy Woods' (2008, Cécile Fontaine) - 8.5/10 - 8 minutes
'Le mur' (2012, Noémi Gruner) - 7.5/10 - 4 minutes
Not listed on IMDb at time of viewing:
Features:
'L'orchidoclaste, Rudy Ricciotti vu par Laetitia Masson' (2013, Laetitia Masson) - 8.5/10
'Chocolat, une histoire du rire' (2016, Judith Sibony) - 7.5/10
'Herménégilde Chiasson, de ruptures en contraintes' (2016, Ginette Pellerin) - 8.5/10
'L'héritier' (2016, Édith Jorisch) - 6.5/10
Shorts:
'Great Castles of the Middle Ages' / 'Mediaeval Castles' (1950, Felicity Kinross) - 8/10 - 20 minutes
'Abstract film en couleurs' (1991, Cécile Fontaine) - 6.5/10 - 3 minutes
'De Kade' (2003, Barbara Meter) - 7/10 - 6 minutes
'Holy Woods' (2008, Cécile Fontaine) - 8.5/10 - 8 minutes
'Le mur' (2012, Noémi Gruner) - 7.5/10 - 4 minutes
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- DirectorKirsten JohnsonStarsKirsten JohnsonAisha BukarEric W. DavisExposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsWaad MohammedReem AbdullahAbdullrahman Al GohaniAn enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
- DirectorJulie DelpyStarsJulie DelpyDany BoonVincent LacosteViolette, a 40-year old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat with her best friend.
- DirectorFlavia CosteStarsSarah-Jeanne LabrosseMylène St-SauveurJean-Luc CouchardThere are almost a hundred years that The Sleeping Beauty is asleep No prince charming responsible for waking found favor in his eyes or, if it does not wake up, the world of fairies disappear.
- DirectorMagaly Richard-SerranoStarsSylvie TestudFinnegan OldfieldJean-François StéveninDance drama playing on a dairy farm, starring two 19-year-old friends Syl and Frenzy who live for breakdancing. The friendship comes under pressure during a dance audition in Paris, where one clearly is superior to the other. A unique film with the passion for dance as a binder for an unusual friendship and countryside as surprisingly natural playing field. Set up by choreographer Mourad Merzouki, the founder of a hip-hop circus school, director of a dance academy and widely loved ambassador for the French streetdance.
- DirectorTonie MarshallStarsCatherine DeneuveWilliam HurtBernard Le CoqA mature woman restores the romantic events of her youth.
- DirectorMary KerrStarsJosh BrolinCraig CastaldoGeorge ClooneyThe New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
- DirectorMira NairStarsNaseeruddin ShahLillete DubeyShefali ShahA stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
- DirectorBaya KasmiStarsVimala PonsMehdi DjaadiAgnès JaouiCharming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get laid with the men she lays off! One day, not wanting to upset someone as she is wont to, she finds herself in a very embarrassing situation: she is mistaken for a former school-friend of a hospital doctor mourning his mother. She of course goes to bed with him. As a result, Dr. Paul Martin falls in love with her while mistaking her once again... for a prostitute this time!
- DirectorAnne GiafferiStarsIsabelle CarréPatrick BruelAlice de LencquesaingAnge Pagani, womanizing architect, is having a normal day until a woman, Gabrielle, arrives at his office accusing his son of being pregnant to her daughter. But Ange has no children!
- DirectorRebecca DalyStarsSam KeeleyOlwen FouéréAntonia Campbell-HughesArlene lives in a small town in the midlands. One morning she wakes in the woods beside the body of a young woman, which is soon discovered. Suspicion spreads through the community and Arlene barricades herself in at night, afraid to sleep.
- DirectorMuriel BoxStarsGlynis JohnsRobert NewtonDonald SindenIn the Indian Ocean, the new British Resident of the Welcome Islands tangles with loneliness, angry natives, a drunken troublemaker and a sudden outbreak of cholera.
- DirectorFabienne GodetStarsOlivier GourmetDominique BlancJulie DepardieuDisheartened after a shocking event that took place in his firm, a compliant and committed employee loses the ground under his feet and revolts.
- DirectorAnnette Haywood-CarterStarsJim CaviezelChiwetel EjioforJaimie AlexanderDrama about the friendship between an Oxford-educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn-of-the-century Savannah.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsNicole KidmanKirsten DunstElle FanningThe unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.
- DirectorCourtney HuntStarsMelissa LeoMisty UphamCharlie McDermottA mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?
- DirectorMuriel BoxStarsAnne CrawfordPeggy CumminsRosamund JohnA pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Peggy Cummins) who is picked up for shoplifting, but let off lightly. She has a small child, an often-absent husband and mother-in-law trouble. To compound that, she takes up with a petty hoodlum who commits a jewel robbery. The second story tells of a young girl who deserts the Army to marry a boy who needs her and commits bigamy in the process, but it all works out. The third story is about a baby who is mistreated by its father and stepmother, but is reunited, through police work, with its real mother.
- DirectorJulie GavrasStarsNina Kervel-BeyJulie DepardieuStefano AccorsiA 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
- DirectorMarion VernouxStarsVirginie EfiraGéraldine NakacheGrégoire LudigMourning his brother's recent death, Pierrick accepts his best friend Tessa's invitation to stay in her family home--at last, a week alone. But when her gets there, he finds the house already occupied by Tessa's sister Marie.
- DirectorRachel PerkinsStarsLevi MillerKevin LongToni ColletteIn the late '60s, two teenage boys join forces to solve a chilling mystery and navigate the prejudices and secrets of their small Australian town.
- DirectorMaeve MurphyStarsScot WilliamsCara SeymourVictoria AitkenFrom tragedy comes a burning love, but can passion survive the torment of a sinister past
- DirectorSarah LévyStarsSamuel JouyMarion CotillardAlbert DupontelVictim of a terrible accident, overnight the young Camille Balaise finds himself in another world; that of rehabilitation. His life till now no longer counts, what is to become of him he does not know. Cut off from the outside world, he must adapt to the bizarre universe of corridors, basements and dark passage-ways that make up this strange, sprawling town-like hospital, overseen by the fiery Dr Helpos. Following a dangerous and derisory initiation rite, Camille becomes part of the community known as the "wrecks", those who on the fringes of medical regulation dictate their own laws.
- DirectorCourteney CoxStarsSeann William ScottOlivia ThirlbyGarret DillahuntOn the verge of giving up on life, a guy travels to his hometown to make amends.
- DirectorBénédicte AcolasStarsSophie MarceauIn an empty house, a woman, 40, lets herself go to her most motivating, deepest impulses.