Good script and personages, great acting, but fizzles out in the end
Cast: Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Rossy de Palma
Director: Amanda Sthers
Writers: Amanda Sthers (screenplay), Amanda Sthers (story) | 2 more credits »
Music by Matthieu Gonet
Cinematography by Régis Blondeau
Film Editing by Nicolas Chaudeurge
Predictable and overdone, but good dialogues and humor
Cast: Noel Wells, Carly Chaikin, Aya Cash, Josh Radnor
Director: Theresa Bennett
Writer: Theresa Bennett
Cinematographer: Sandra Valde-Hansen
Editor: Yaniv Dabach, Jonathan Melin
Two long-time best friends come into adulthood in very different ways / a coming of age story that avoids stereotypes / good direction, script, personages, and dialogues
Cast: Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody, Gabourey Sidibe, Beth Dover, Abby Elliott, Mark Feuerstein, Kate McKinnon, Greer Grammer
Director: Susanna Fogel
Writer: Joni Lefkowitz, Susanna Fogel
Director of Photography: Brian Burgoyne
Another “liberated” woman whose ultimate goal is romance, love, and marriage!
Cast: Alice Taglioni, Patrick Bruel, Marine Delterme
Director: Sophie Lellouche
Writer: Sophie Lellouche (scenario and dialogue)
Music by Jean-Michel Bernard
Cinematography by Laurent Machuel
Film Editing by Monica Coleman
The social pressure on the love life of four women working in a beauty parlor in Beyrouth / Touching, light, funny, great tempo…
Cast: Nadine Labaki, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad
Director: Nadine Labaki
Writers: Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily
Music by Khaled Mouzanar
Cinematography by Yves Sehnaoui
Film Editing by Laure Gardette
Outstanding acting by Vikander / a not really focused and a bit chaotic musical choice / original title: To What’s Beautiful
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Samuel Fröler, Josephine Bauer
Director: Lisa Langseth
Writer: Lisa Langseth
Music by Per-Erik Winberg
Cinematography by Simon Pramsten
Film Editing by Malin Lindström
A wo/man crosses a 400-year destiny through history – a tribute to gender unity
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, Quentin Crisp
Written and Directed by Sally Potter
Music by David Motion, Sally Potter
Cinematography by Aleksei Rodionov
Film Editing by Hervé Schneid
Strong message and gender/minorities representation, but static direction
Cast: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Saavedra
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Writer: Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza
Cinematographer: Benjamín Echazarreta
Editor: Soledad Salfate
Composer: Nani Garcia, Matthew Herbert
A few surprising moments do not erase the accumulation of clichés in this coming-out-of-the-closet comedy, with love/marriage/children shown as the defining goals of a woman’s life!
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Tom Wilkinson, Linda Emond
Director: Mary Agnes Donoghue
Writer: Mary Agnes Donoghue
Music by Brian Byrne
Cinematography by Seamus Tierney
Film Editing by Éva Gárdos, Nick Moore
Good thriller, good acting, excellent sound/score, but little content
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger, Percy Kemp, Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant, Paul Hamy, Victor Pontecorvo
Director: Alice Winocour
Writer: Alice Winocour, Jean-Stéphane Bron
Cinematographer: Georges Lechaptois
Editor: Julian Lacheray
Composer: Mike Lévy