Tag: Women Directors
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Down Cemetery Road: mystery, danger, and mayhem
Down Cemetery Road is a mystery about government bad behavior. It’s an innocent bystander plotline with some pretty farfetched story points. Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed it so much and found myself smiling so often.
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Ripple, random connections around love and loss
Ripple tells multiple stories about a group of people who meet in random ways and form a community around love and loss. There are many interesting characters who interconnect in various ways.
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The Abandons – family, love and murder
The Abandons puts Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson on horseback in big hats in a Western drama about family, love, greed, hate, murder, and revenge.
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Left-Handed Girl, a family struggles to survive
Left-Handed Girl tells a emotional story about a family headed by a single mom as they struggle to survive. The mom opens a noodle shop in a busy night market in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Sorry, Baby: why women pick the bear
Sorry, Baby was written and directed by Eva Victor, who also stars as the main character, Agnes. This low budget indie looks at Agnes as she struggles through a horrific event.
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, a French comedy
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Jane Austen a gâché ma vie) comes from writer and director Laura Piani. It’s a romantic comedy, mostly in French with some English, about a bookshop worker who wins a spot at a writing retreat called the Jane Austen Residency.
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The Beast in Me, this powerful series captivates
The Beast in Me is the kind of story that will be talked about for many years. It’s a tightly written suspense drama that deals with themes of blame, vengeance, rage, and violence that are part of human nature. It’s a deep examination of those themes in ways that will merit visiting and revisiting by…
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Materialists: love as old as time
Materialists was billed as a love triangle romcom but it isn’t that. I’d say it’s a thoughtful look at dating, marriage, value, and love from the unique perspective of a matchmaker for the rich in New York City.
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The New Force, pioneering women police
The New Force comes from Sweden and is based on true events. In 1958 an “experiment” letting women into the police force took place in the Klara police district in Stockholm, the most crime-ridden part of the city. The women quickly proved they were capable of the work, and more women were hired after their…