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.
- DirectorValeria Bruni TedeschiStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiLouis GarrelFilippo TimiA family is forced to sell their Italian home.
- DirectorMargot BenacerrafStarsJosé Ignacio CabrujasLaurent Terzieff"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
- DirectorMarie BelhommeStarsIsabelle CarréCarmen MauraPhilippe RebbotPerrine plays at kids' birthdays to make ends meet. On her way to a party, she makes a man fall into a tip. The victim is taken to hospital in a coma. Perrine decides to do all she can to help him awake.
- DirectorSarah LeonorStarsJérémie RenierSurho SugaipovRamzan IdievMarkov and Hamilton are fellow French Legionnaire's at the end of their posting in Afghanistan. An ambush results in an abdication of duty-despite it stemming from an act of fidelity. Markov joined the Legion as a foreign refugee, hoping to gain his French citizenship and provide a better life for his young son. Ultimately, the complications of immigration and legal status takes a heartbreaking turn but also a primal urge to do right by those who have committed their lives to saving others'.
- DirectorCatherine CorsiniStarsKarin ViardÉric CaravacaJacques WeberOn the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, bitchy Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.
- DirectorHope Dickson LeachStarsEllie KendrickDavid TroughtonJack HoldenSomerset, October 2014. When Clover Catto (Ellie Kendrick) receives a call telling her that her younger brother Harry (Joe Blakemore) is dead, she must return to her family farm and face the man she hasn't spoken to in years: her father Aubrey (David Troughton). She is shocked to discover her home changed forever by the devastating floods that destroyed the area six months earlier, and Aubrey a tormented shadow of his former self. As she learns what has been going on in her long absence she and her father forge a new understanding, but can it withstand the troubles that they face on the ravaged farm as well as the truth of what drove Harry to take his own life?
- DirectorCharlotte SilveraStarsMarie-Christine BarraultAnnie GirardotBernadette LafontA women's prison. Women arrive, some for as long as eight years. They work making teddy bears. Dessombes, the head matron, misses little. She gets intelligence from Marthe, an older convict. When the uncompromising and difficult Nelly is sent to the hole for something she didn't do, the women suspect that Marthe had a hand in it. Brigitte breaks off their friendship, so Marthe adopts Nicole, guilty of infanticide and shunned by the other prisoners, as her surrogate daughter. Sabine, young, energetic, and one of the few with a husband who visits her, falls in love with Lucie, a woman who has given up on life and fears the day of her release. Tensions mount.
- DirectorAnne FontaineStarsFabrice LuchiniRoschdy ZemStéphane AudranBertrand Beauvois, a well-known attorney, is in Monte Carlo to defend a businessman's mother who murdered a gigolo with ties to gangsters. The businessman provides a bodyguard, Christophe, who is thorough and unsmiling. The middle-aged Beauvois is drawn to Audrey, in her 20s, free spirited, a local TV weather girl who once dated Christophe. Although Christophe warns Beauvois to stay away from Audrey, he's hooked and spends every moment with her he's not in court. What's her angle: is she a plant who'll ruin the case; is Beauvois her toy; is she digging for gold; or, is she genuine? Beauvois loves the wild sex but not her promiscuity. Has Christophe failed to protect him?
- DirectorPascale FerranStarsMarina HandsJean-Louis Coulloc'hHippolyte GirardotA French adaptation of the second (and much less well-known) version of D.H. Lawrence's erotic tale.
- DirectorAnne-Marie EtienneStarsGisèle CasadesusAnne ConsignyJonathan ZaccaïThe last days of a terminally-ill old lady ,full of Joie De Vivre.
- DirectorMagaly Richard-SerranoStarsLéa DruckerLou GablePhilip SchurerSuffering dizziness and fainting spells, TV presenter Flavie consults a psychiatrist. He suggests she's bottling up a traumatic event from her past and proposes they look through childhood photos. A picture brings back repressed memories.
- DirectorIvana BosnjakThomas JohnsonWhich image is real - the one staring at us from the mirror or the one standing in front of it? In hallways filled with illusions, a simulacrum behind the looking glass, he is trying to find out if he is looking at a stranger or a hidden part of himself.
- DirectorMaya DerenStarsChao Li ChiThe setting with the low walls and river views is located in a private area of The Cloisters museum.
- DirectorAnouk DominguezStarsChanel AguraAntojoCarrina da SilvaLOU is a story of women, including the underground live of Luciana, a Portuguese who immigrated in Brussels working in a brothel. On that day, she tries to wish a Happy Birthday by Skype to her young son who stayed in Portugal.
- DirectorRhiannon EvansFollow a little, lost thought as it tries to find the best place to become a big idea.
- DirectorAurora FearnleyStarsJames RastallMaria Jose BavioOn the sand dunes of her local beach a female jogger returns to the scene of a crime looking for closure.
- DirectorCharlotte ReganStarsAlfie StewartSian CliffordMartin AskewSet against the urban backdrop of North London, Fry-Up is an intimate portrayal of a family's last day together.
- DirectorNadège DumontCarl MurphyStarsCormac BrownMarian CaparrósCate MacGabhanThe world has ended. There's nowhere to go. Except back.
- DirectorHamlet SarkissianDonatella Gomelsky-GuichardStarsWhitney Morgan CoxJustin LoyalTony Nevada22 veterans commit suicide everyday. That's almost one per hour. THE VETERAN HOUR explores three different hours in three different veteran's lives, where not giving up on love and compassion is the only way to give a chance to re-birth
- DirectorAudrey O'ReillyStarsRory KeenanOwen RoeWhen an important pigeon race and a rare visit home by his son Martin coincide, Charlie waits anxiously for a safe journey home.
- DirectorMarie KremerStarsAlba Gaïa BellugiOscar CoppLaurette TessierSummoned to a mysterious meeting, Poppy, Vincent, Gaspard, and Adèle find themselves in front of a worn down bar, on the seaside, in Ostende. Rapidly, the four of them discover that they are not here by coincidence: in learning that they are half-brothers and sisters, they inherit the bar as well. With one mission: rebuild the restaurant together.
- DirectorSéverine de StreykerMaxime FeyersStarsJean-Michel BalthazarIngrid HeiderscheidtFrançois MaquetFrance meets her son's girlfriend for the first time. She loses control.
- DirectorOzgul GurbuzCenk KöksalTwo kids' playing house experience is getting darker while they are pretending..
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsAngela SchanelecThis early, Godard-inspired structuralist sketch analyzes an empty apartment by way of a continuous pan as Schanelec's voice-over narration recounts her uneasiness with her new roommate.
- DirectorKen KnowltonLillian Schwartz
- DirectorMarc RibaAnna SolanasVioleta loves best fishing into the darkest depths.
- DirectorLillian Schwartz
- DirectorLillian Schwartz
- DirectorThomas DraschanStella FriedrichsThis award-winning short color films include a wide range of images, which include animated and black and white footage. The film rapidly cuts between scenes. Some of the depictions could be judged as shocking or offensive by some.
- DirectorValérie Mréjen
- DirectorValérie Mréjen
- DirectorMaureen O'ConnellStarsMarilyn BaneSharon CoadeMolly HoweMary is a lonely, young teenage girl desperately seeking love and attention.
- DirectorDennis EarlieVanessa EarlieStarsVanessa EarlieA quirky interpretative film using Edesia the Roman Goddess of food as a title to evoke a young girls understanding of a food disorder as seen through her eyes. Think Marceau meets Saryan and you get Art meets Art form. Truly creative richly different.
- DirectorLichun Tseng
- DirectorLisa CraftsGlass Gardens is an animated film about the role creativity plays in the survival of the human spirit. A lone woman wanders a landscape of a fallen city, gathering relics and creating new works. This black and white film combines sequential drawn animation and cutouts on richly rendered graphite backgrounds.