CinéFemme - Annakarinaland

The fact that there were four women on the feature film jury at Cannes this year means a lot. Even if 20 of the 24 of the films were made by men in the competition for the 74th Cannes Film Festival, how women see film and make film is different than men. The world of film critics is full of men and how they write is also different. It is not a judgement - just a fact. I was deeply disturbed by Titane at the screening. Filmmaker Julia Ducournau is as "raw", as the title of her previous film ( Raw , 2016). The cadence of this film is similar starring Garance Marillier as a vegetarian veterinarian with a minor role in the film. Ducournau has a cinematic sense that I have not encountered previously This needs some qualification. Ducournau shows how women feel. She shows their bodies in intimate detail and their facial expressions. They are doers. She shows their vulnerability and their stengths even as they are assaulted and bullied. She provides characters in which spectators...

Awards night at the 74th Cannes Film Festival was special with so many of the top prizes going to women. Women constituted the majority of the feature film competition jury- five out of nine - for the first time in the festival's history. Feature Films PALME D'OR TITANE Julia DUCOURNAU HONORARY PALME D'OR JODIE FOSTER CAMÉRA D'OR DIRECTORS'FORTNIGHT MURINA Antoneta ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIC Un Certain Regard The five-member Un Certain Regard Jury had three women (six of the nine prizes awarded to women. UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE RAZZHIMAYA KULAKI (UNCLENCHING THE FISTS) Kira KOVALENKO ENSEMBLE PRIZE BONNE MÈRE(GOOD MOTHER) Hafsia HERZI COURAGE PRIZE LA CIVIL Teodora Ana MIHAI SPECIAL MENTION - UN CERTAIN REGARD NOCHE DE FUEGO (PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN) Tatiana HUEZO Two other festival juries - one for the Camera d'or award, the other for Cinefondation and Short Films - were also headed by women. 3RD PRIZE ...

Reprinted from agnesfilms.com March 9, 2020 Moira Jean Sullivan Hollywood producers, directors, cast, and crew who are sexual predators and abusers are part of the history of the motion picture industry. Harvey Weinstein attempted to negate the power of solidarity among women who declared they had been abused by claiming it was consensual or that he did not recall the events survivors were describing. The film industry is not unique as a site for sexual assault or provocation, but because of the widespread number of women who spoke out, this case has become globally applicable to a multitude of work environments where women have stood up and declared #MeToo. #MeToo is synonymous with Harvey Weinstein and his rampage of sexual assault of women in Hollywood in the film industry, but #MeToo has grown from this case to expose predators in other places of employment.  Adele Haenel For over a century, we have seen sexual violence in films and television but recently have...

The day after the news of Anna Karina's death the news media truncated her life eclipsed by a former husband of four years in a 79 year old life. Mostly she is credited for being an icon. She is not credited as a great actor, a filmmaker or singer. Time to start ignoring the usual news feed stories.

Summertime David Lean UK ,  1955 Review by Moira Sullivan Posted on 11 July 2004 Source Home Vision VHS Summertime  was shot exclusively in Venice. And for those who have been to Venice, the film is a rare treasure; an historical homage to a city once enamored by tourists, with very few cameras, and mostly well dressed Italians. Today the dress is more casual, and the deluge of international tourists milling around removes a part of this floating museum with every step. For David Lean, it was his favorite film starring his favorite actress. In her autobiography,  Me , Katherine Hepburn remarked, “they called me and said that David Lean was going to direct it. ‘Would I be…’ they didn’t need to finish that sentence.” Hepburn said she first lived on the island of Murano, where the famous Murano glass is made, not Venice proper with its maze of narrow streets and bridges. Together with her entourage, she quickly moved into an apartment near the Grand C...

Reviews The Visit La Rancune Bernhard Wicki USA / France ,  1964 Review by Moira Sullivan Posted on 11 July 2004 Source 20th Century Fox 35mm print From start to finish,  The Visit  is commanded by the presence of Ingrid Bergman. She was scorned by Hollywood for leaving her husband for an Italian director, and is here cast in a role that allows her to address the people that exiled her. As a young woman, Bergman was given virtuous roles that endeared her to the public, which was why her exile angered them. (Ernest Hemingway was prepared to take out a full-page ad in Hollywood Reporter in her defense.) Nevertheless, she had tired of superficial roles and was willing to accept low pay for challenging parts in Rossellini’s realist cinema, as in  Stromboli , the first picture he invited her to make in 1949. Bergman received a standing ovation at the Academy Awards when she returned to accept an Oscar for  Murder on the Orient Express , years a...