Category Archives: male director

8,0-8,9, male director, Sci-fi

“Arrival” (Denis Villeneuve, Canada 2016)

arrival

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Eric Heisserer (screenplay), Ted Chiang (based on the story “Story of Your Life” written by)
Actors: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker

“The center of the film remains our transmutation of sympathy for a grieving mother into sympathy for a woman who knows she will be grieving for a child yet unborn, and yet embraces her destiny.”

[When is Now? By David Bordwell in Observations on film art, Wednesday | November 23, 2016. http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2016/11/23/arrival-when-is-now/]

8,0-8,9, comedy, crime, drama,, male director, romance,

“Elle” (Paul Verhoeven, France 2016)

elle

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: Philippe Djian (based on the novel by), David Birke (screenplay)
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny

The “ever-mysterious sexual power within a woman”1 exudes not only  from the main female character, but even more strongly from the new equilibrium that the end of the movie sets in motion.

1 – ELLE: A Complex & Challenging Exploration Into Lurid Territory by Laura Birnbaum. Film Inquiry, Nov. 9, 2016 http://www.filminquiry.com/elle-2016-review/

7,0-7,9, crime, drama,, male director, romance,

“Gone Girl” (David Fincher, USA 2014)

gone-girl

Director: David Fincher
Writers: Gillian Flynn (screenplay), Gillian Flynn (novel)
Actors: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

“The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this cunt might like. I’m not a quitter, I’m that cunt. I killed for you; who else can say that? You think you’d be happy with a nice Midwestern girl? No way, baby! I’m it.”