Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writers: Asghar Farhadi, Mani Haghighi
Actors: Hamid Farokhnezhad, Hediyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti
A young woman – very much in love and soon to get married – meets
A woman who is devastated because her husband has an affair and
A divorced woman who remembers the time her husband was madly in love with her.
Nevertheless…
Director: Norman Foster
Writers: Alan Campbell (screenplay), Norman Foster (screenplay)
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
Director: Byron Haskin
Writers: Roy Huggins (screenplay), Roy Huggins (serial)
Actors: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea
Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Ernest Lehman (screen play), Cameron Hawley (based on the novel by)
Actors: William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Frederic March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters…
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Writers: Maile Meloy (short stories), Kelly Reichardt
Actors: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern
In the calmest way, scarcely intruded images and stable frames lead to an almost continuous but never exposed tension.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Writers: Mia Hansen-Løve (scenario), Sven Hansen-Løve (scenario)
Actors: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne
Vivre le temps avant qu’il ne tombe dans l’oubli
Un monde aux personnages sans épaisseur
Director: Courtney Hunt
Writer: Courtney Hunt
Actors: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott
A feminine world from which the masculine is exiled at the fringe.
A world of women and children showing the universality and interchangeability of motherhood.
A multifaceted world on which it is as treacherous to tread as on a frozen river…
Director: Courtney Hunt
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Renée Zellweger, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Director: Leena Yadav
Writers: Supratik Sen (dialogue), Leena Yadav
Actors: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Lehar Khan
Domestic violence, honor, infertility, prostitution, child marriage, rape… These themes are treated in a traditional gender setting in Rajasthan.
The message of the movie is straightforward: while most men drink, commit adultery, are jealous and violent, women have fun, bring changes… and are at least as sexualized as their male counterparts.
Director: Vincent Sherman
Writers: David Goodis (original screenplay), James Gunn (original screenplay)
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott
Same year, same director, same actress, same infidelity theme as precedent movie (Nora Prentiss) but this one with a more traditional approach. As in Nora Prentiss, a film noir with no real bad guy (or bad girl), except for the greedy Martin Barrow (Steven Gearey).
Eve Arden steals the show, a feminine counterpart to George Sanders.
Director: Vincent Sherman
Writers: Paul Webster (story), Jack Sobell (story)
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Nice film noir without any bad guy (or bad girl), just a man who “reached for something, going about it the wrong way.” CineMaven’s ESSAYS from the COUCH