Category Archives: male director

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

“Fireworks Wednesday” (Asghar Farhadi, Iran 2006)

 

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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…

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

“The Unfaithful” (Vincent Sherman, US 1947)

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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.

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

“These Three” + “The Children’s Hour” (William Wyler, US, 1936 – 1961)

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Director: William Wyler
Writer: Lillian Hellman (original story and screen play)
Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea

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Director: William Wyler
Writers: Lillian Hellman (play), John Michael Hayes (screenplay)
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner

Because of the M.P.P.C. (or Hays Code)  that started to be fully implemented in 1934, Lillian Hellman had to change the story of her first play The Children’s Hour based on a true story in which two teachers are accused of being lesbians into a more acceptable triangular relationship..In These Three the two female teachers are in love with the same man.
In 1961, William Wyler made a remake of his own 1936 film, using this time the original story and the original title of the play.