12 female directors of our time, whose films are worth seeing
Cinema / / December 19, 2019
Greta Gerwig
American actress and screenwriter Greta Gerwig was known to a wide audience especially on comedic roles in Woody Allen ( "Roman Holiday") and Noah Baumbaka ( "Greenberg," "Frances Ha"). Everything changed in 2017, when she wrote and directed his first independent film "Lady Bird". For accurate and sharp-tongued story of growing up Herwig received a ton of accolades and two nomination for "Oscar"Including Best Director.
lady Bird
- Drama, comedy.
- USA, 2017.
- Duration: 94 min.
- IMDb: 7,6.
Christine (Saoirse Ronan) lives in a small town in California, but its fate is far from ideal: the father - unemployed mother always strained, Man is not, and the prospects for graduates of the Catholic school is not encouraging. Hoping to get out of the swamp provincial Christine dyes his hair, calls itself the "Lady Bird" and is planning to departure to New York.
Lynne Ramsay
A graduate of the National Film School of England Ramsey almost 20 years successfully conquer their stringent international film festivals ribbons. Each film director, one way or another, affects the theme of death and survival. But none of them has not yet been so visually perfect as her last work. "You've never not be here" - terribly beautiful and almost hopeless elegy about a lonely hitman in which
Joaquin PhoenixHe seems to have played his best role.You've never not be here
- Thriller, Drama, Detective.
- UK, France, USA, 2017.
- Duration: 90 min.
- IMDb: 7,5.
Joe, a veteran of the fighting and the former Fed with a difficult childhood, living with an elderly mother, and for a small fee searches for missing minors girls. When a new business suddenly goes out of control, he begins to drown in the nightmares of their own consciousness of the injured, and the massacre hangs over everyone who has ever been close to him.
Kathryn Bigelow
Veteran American film Bigelow has become known as the director in the early '90s, releasing hit the screens the film "Point Break" with a young Keanu Reeves. Since Katherine loves to present as "a woman with the eggs", and almost all of her pictures are in the category of action games and military police militants. What is more powerful, Bigelow - still the only woman in history, with its "Oscar" for Best Director.
The number one goal
- Thriller, Drama, History, Military.
- USA 2012.
- Duration: 157 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,4.
Chronicle of a ten-year hunt for the US intelligence "terrorist number one" Osama bin Laden told by the agent on behalf of Maya (Jessica Chastain), obsessed with his capture.
Sofia Coppola
Daughter of an American classic Francis Ford Coppola Sofia itself is rightfully considered to be the honored director, behind which of Six sophisticated dramas about relationships. The more interesting that the most beloved and recognizable it is considered to be the work of a film still that Coppola took off 15 years ago at the dawn of his career. Since then, the "Lost in Translation" is regularly included in the lists best films of our time.
Lost in translation
- Drama, romance, comedy.
- USA, Japan, in 2003.
- Duration: 102 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,8.
An aging movie star (Bill Murray) and a bored girl (Scarlett Johansson) meet by chance in an expensive hotel of Tokyo, to change their lives forever.
Lone Scherfig
Before his famous drama "An Education," Scherfig Danish declared itself to be a true follower Lars von Trier and cinematic movement "Dogme 95" by removing the style of the earlier work, "Italian for Beginners. " However, today we know it, rather, as the author of sensual British melodramas ( "One Day", "Club rebels"), during which young people wipe their tears to yourself and your mate.
An education
- Drama.
- United Kingdom, USA, 2008.
- Duration: 100 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,3.
The history of growing 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) from the London suburbs whose life changes after meeting with the charming playboy (Peter Sarsgaard), who is twice her age.
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Celine Skyamma
For ten years, the Frenchwoman Celine Skyamma removes unhurried and detailed sketches of the lives of teenage girls trying on them no matter what do not like looking at the world. In addition, in fact, growing Skyammu interested in issues of gender variation and sexual self-determination and criticism (and the audience), each time getting stronger imbued her exciting stories about the inevitable dramas transition age.
Water lilies
- Drama, Romance.
- France, 2007.
- Duration: 85 min.
- IMDb: 6,7.
After the meeting at the local pool during the summer holidays three 15-year-old girl from the suburbs of Paris are beginning to fight for their attention to each other in the heat of passion suddenly awakened.
Lisa Cholodenko
The daughter of Ukrainian immigrants Cholodenko worked in television for many years ( "What does Olivia?") And I took a few art-melodrama about the sexual awakening of adult women (" High Art, "" Laurel Canyon "). So far in 2010 has not released "Kids Are All Right" - topical tragicomedy about how to be a same-sex parents. Tape grabbed several important awards in Hollywood, and she Cholodenko got into the prestigious list of nominees for the "Oscar" of women writers.
Kids Are All Right
- Drama, romance, comedy.
- USA, 2010.
- Duration: 106 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,0.
Brother and sister (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) of the American homosexual family were born by artificial insemination. Having reached the age of reason, they decide to look for the biological father (Mark Ruffalo) and acquaint him with their moms (Julianne Moore and Annette Bening).
Andrea Arnold
One of the most celebrated British director Andrea Arnold today received the first (and only) "Oscar" more for debut short film "Wasp". After that, with each new tape invariably got into the contest the most prestigious film festivals of the world, where never left without awards. Its chief is currently filming the movie Arnold guerrilla methods with the selected street nonprofessional actors - Enjoy a unique three-hour ode to youth under the name "American cutie".
American cutie
- Drama, romance, adventure.
- United Kingdom, United States, 2016.
- Duration: 163 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,0.
Having met in the parking lot a supermarket attractive guy (Shia LaBeouf), who sells magazine subscriptions, minor Star (newcomer Sasha Lane) travels to a one-story America in search of happiness, fun and very turretless themselves.
Ava Duvernay
Once a budding independent filmmaker Duvernay stake out a place in the main African American Hollywood industry after the Oscar-winning "Selma" about the life of Martin Luther King. However, few people know that Ava is not only a good storyteller, but also a great documentary ( "Thirteen"), and its application is not limited talents as a visual lush otherwise disastrous "Break time".
Selma
- Drama, Biography, History.
- United Kingdom, United States, 2014.
- Duration: 128 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,5.
Biographical drama about several episodes in the life of a famous fighter for human rights Martin Luther King (David Oyelouo), which led to the famous Selma to Montgomery marches, forever changed the socio-political US landscape.
Lukresiya Martel
A brilliant representative of the new Argentine cinema Martel gained international fame even with his debut film "Swamp". However, to enter the key tops of the XXI century Kinovedcheskie director managed it with a psychological drama "A woman without a head," which cold prudence prepares looped on itself the class of modern bourgeoisie.
A woman without a head
- Drama, Biography, History.
- Argentina, France, Italy, Spain, 2008.
- Duration: 87 min.
- IMDb: 6,5.
After Veronica, coming back home, someone knocked on the freeway (whether dog, or child), her life slowly turns into a paranoid nightmare.
Debra Granik
A prominent figure of American independent film Granicus opened to a wide audience with the release of "Winter's Bone" - ruthless in its depth drama about a girl from the lower classes, in search of the missing father-authority. It was this work done then-little-known star Jennifer Lawrence on a national scale, and gave her first nomination for "Oscar".
winter's bone
- Drama.
- Argentina, France, Italy, Spain, 2010.
- Duration: 100 minutes.
- IMDb: 7,2.
Unwavering 17-year-old Ree (Jennifer Lawrence) embarks on a dangerous journey through the American outback to find his missing dad, a drug trafficker (John Hawkes).
Julia Dyukorno
"Raw" for the French state film school student Julia Dyukorno just a debut, but what: shocking, provocative and mature allegory of sexual awakening has caused trepidation among critics around the world (as well as several fainting at particularly impressionable spectators). Therefore, the film you should be careful.
raw
- Horror, Drama.
- France, Belgium, Italy, in 2016.
- Duration: 99 min.
- IMDb: 7,0.
After freshman vegetarians of hereditary family was forced to go through the ritual myasoedchesky initiation into the Veterinary Institute, it suddenly woke up craving for uncontrolled eating raw meat.
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