A powerful movie
Actors: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Jacques Davidts (scenario and dialogue), Denis Villeneuve (collaboration)
Music: Benoît Charest
Cinematography: Pierre Gill
Editing: Richard Comeau
Cast: Alice Lowe, Jo Hartley, Kate Dickie, Gemma Whelan, Kayvan Novak, Tom Davis,
Director: Alice Lowe
Writer: Alice Lowe
Cinematographer: Ryan Eddleston
Editor: Matteo Bini
Composer: Pablo Clements, James Griffith, Toydrum
In a Parisian ‘hot’ suburb, drug distribution, blackmail, and violence are controlled by women. Strong performances.
Cast: Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kevin Mischel
Director: Houda Benyamina
Writer: Houda Benyamina
Music: Demusmaker
Cinematography: Julien Poupard
Editing: Loïc Lallemand , Vincent Tricon
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, David Yow, Jane Levy, Devon Graye, Christine Woods, Macon Blair
Director: Macon Blair
Writer: Macon Blair
Cinematographer: Larkin Seiple
Editor: Tomas Vengris
Cast: Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Jared Sanford
Director: Anna Biller
Writer: Anna Biller
Editor: Anna Biller
Director of Photography: David Mullen
Music: Anna Biller
One Writer, Four Directors
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Sinead Cusack, Jerzy Skolimowski
Directed: David Cronenberg
Written: Steven Knight
One Writer, Four Directors
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong, Zlatko Buric
Directed: Stephen Frears
Written: Steve Knight
excellent direction and personages
weakest: message
A divorced lawyer mother of two tries to put some order in her chaotic life..
Cast: Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Melvil Poupaud
Director: Justine Triet
Writers: Thomas Lévy-Lasne, Justine Triet
Cinematography: Simon Beaufils
Editing: Laurent Sénéchal
excellent dialogues + music
weakest: message + humor
Cleverly orchestrated four-generational love relationship, in which a woman in her sixties who is still looking for her true (lesbian) love falls for a young married mother of two who has an affair with a teenage boy. The emotional stability of the two male characters (the 15-year old boy and the older husband) contrasts with the vulnerability of the two female leads.
Director: Richard Eyre
Writers: Patrick Marber, Zoe Heller (novel)
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Andrew Simpson, Bill Nighy
Music: Philip Glass
Cinematography: Chris Menges
Editing: John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen
strongest: montage
weakest: message, humor
A story set inside a story and related to it, to which flashbacks are added
Cast: Amy Adams, Armie Hammer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ellie Bamber, Isla Fisher, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Shannon, Karl Glusman
Director: Tom Ford
Writer: Tom Ford, Austin Wright (novel)
Cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey
Composer: Abel Korzeniowski
Editor: Joan Sobel