Are a clutch of new films directed by men but featuring powerful women a sign that cinema’s gender landscape is being reshaped or mere opportunism?With just one female-directed film out of 21 in its competition, the Venice film festival drew criticism from women’s movements and the wider film industry.
However, in front of the camera, Venice was a different story entirely.
Three of the festival’s most anticipated and dissected films were men’s take on matriarchies; stories awash with instinctive, vivacious women who for better or worse operate within a female domain.Alfonso Cuarón’s monochrome epic Roma, Yorgos Lanthimos’s ruthless period drama The Favourite and Luca Guadagnino’s controversial remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria arrived at the Lido just days apart, conjuring glowing reviews, titillating headlines and walkouts from the front row.
This hothouse industry may well be offering an artificial coincidence with such
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