MdW – Movies directed by Women
MdW (visual) movie rating
Good dialogues, direction, music, message, and expression
A very enjoyable comedy
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,3
TMDB 7,2
Critics average 6,8
Audience average 7,1
Cast: Nadia Litz, Nikki Barnett, Adrien Dixon
Director: Andrea Dorfman
Writers: Jennifer Deyell, Andrea Dorfman
Music by Mike O’Neill
Cinematography by Thomas M. Harting
Film Editing by Michael Vernon
Good direction and gender content
Top images and minority presence
The Gullah, a community of African-Americans on Ibo Island off the coast of Virginia in 1902.
The women are all dressed in white and seem to be in charge.
A world of traditions that has difficulty integrating the modern world
The story is told as a patchwork of loose memories during a picknick by the sea
Sometimes too theatrical, and the music, though good, does not always fit the time and place
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,8
Metascore 8,1
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,6
TMDB 6,9
Critics average 7,8
Audience average 6,9
Cast: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao
Director: Julie Dash
Writer: Julie Dash
Music by John Barnes
Cinematography by Arthur Jafa
Film Editing by Joseph Burton, Amy Carey
Good script, personages, direction, images, music, and gender content
A 16-year-old girl mourns the death of her mother while discovering sex and losing her virginity. A chaotic world in which she tries to define herself, while the others have difficulty understanding her.
An integer movie without the usual cliches
Fine use of music
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,2
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 5,4
TMDB 6,0
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,5
Cast: Jessica Barr, Katie Prentiss, Claire Manning
Director: Jessie Barr
Writers: Jessica Barr, Jessie Barr
Music by Nate Heller
Cinematography by Scott Miller
Film Editing by Naomi Sunrise Filoramo
Good dialogues, direction, minority presence, and expression
Excellent script and gender content
There’s much more in every one of us than what one can see…
A clever script despite the overcharged feel-good ending that takes off a bit of the movie sharpness
Appreciated by the public, certainly not by the critics
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 2,5
Metascore 2,4
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 6,4
TMDB 6,5
Critics average 2,5
Audience average 6,6
Cast: Seann William Scott, Olivia Thirlby, Garret Dillahunt
Director: Courteney Cox
Writer: David Flebotte
Music by Erran Baron Cohen
Cinematography by Mark Schwartzbard
Film Editing by Roger Bondelli
Great script, personages, dialogues and message
Top gender content
A movie with double insight: an insider look at the training and the routine an astronaut has to follow before leaving earth; a take on how difficult it is for a female astronaut to combine her expected motherly role and the high intensity of a training set in a structure thought and made for men. The end credits make us discover all these ‘mothers’ who went on space missions.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,0
Metascore 7,5
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,3
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,3
Cast: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon
Director: Alice Winocour
Writers: Alice Winocour, Jean-Stéphane Bron
Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cinematography by Georges Lechaptois
Film Editing by Julien Lacheray
Good personages, dialogues and direction
Excellent script
Foreign films sometimes confront us with reactions or expressions that seem strange to us. For example, as a European, I find the reaction of ‘shame’ in American movies – when a man is shocked when he unintendedly sees female nudity – extremely hypocritical, even though I’ve seen it so many times…) Anyway, very little of this in this Japanese movie (except at one moment, with the cat…)
A fantasy dealing with mature subjects!
IMDB 6,3
Original title: Kohi ga Samenai Uchi Ni
Cast: Kasumi Arimura, Motoki Fukami,
Director: Ayuko Tsukahara
Writer: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Music by Masaru Yokoyama
Cinematography by Norimichi Kasamatsu
Film Editing by Ryûji Miyajima
Good direction and music
Excellent personages and minority representation
A coming of age story in which a 13-year-old girl feels responsible for the people she cares for
Great acting by Sophia Mitri Schloss, her presence captivates
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,2
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,4
IMDB 5,7
TMDB 7,5
Critics average 6,0
Audience average 7,5
Cast: Sophia Mitri Schloss, Melanie Lynskey, John Gallagher Jr., Danielle Brooks, Tony Hale
Director: Megan Griffiths
Writer: Megan Griffiths
Cinematographer: T.J. Williams Jr.
Editor: Celia Beasley
Composer: Mike McCready
Good personages, images, and message
Top minority representation
Although script and direction are at times a bit clumsy, the movie has lots of good things and a good feeling about it
A very diversified cast, from beginning to end
As for the title, a mysterious choice…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,1
Metascore 4,9
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,4
IMDB 5,6
Average critics 5,8
Average public 7,5
Cast: Leslie Bibb, Josh Duhamel, Sharon Lawrence, Kevin Alejandro, Georgia King
Director: Vicky Wight
Writer (novel): Katherine Center
Writer: Vicky Wight
Cinematographer: Aaron Kovalchik
Editor: Suzanne Spangler
Composer: Sherri Chung
Good script and message
Excellent gender content
Top minority representation
A fine movie about the choices and decisions a pregnant woman has to make between her career and motherhood. The movie brings also the disadvantages African-Americans face into perspective, disadvantages that even their (Caucasian) teacher has difficulty fathoming.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore 6,5
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 5,9
Average critics 6,9
Average public 6,2
Cast: Cobie Smulders, Anders Holm, Gail Bean
Director: Kris Rey
Writers: Megan Mercier, Kris Rey (as Kris Swanberg)
Music by Keegan DeWitt
Cinematography by Dagmar Weaver-Madsen
Film Editing by Zach Clark
Good script, personages, direction, images, and minority representation
A very worthy first feature!
The Indian title means “Zero Divided by Zero Equals Nothing” … which would have been much too difficult for Western audiences 🙂
Music at times too intrusive and childish: just like too many cooks spoil the broth, too many musicians handling the music spoil the score
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 8,4
Average critics 6,5
Average public 8,2
Original title: Nil Battey Sannata
Cast: Swara Bhaskar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Riya Shukla
Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Writers: Nitesh Tiwari, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Music by Naren Chandavarkar, Rohan-Vinayak
Music composed by Vinayak Salvi, Rohan Utpat
Cinematography by Gavemic U. Ary
Film Editing by Chandrashekhar Prajapati
Good dialogues and message
Excellent gender content
Two mothers, two daughters, almost no male around, a lot of sharp moments
Good editing, although at times a bit too cryptic
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,5
Average critics 7,4
Average public 5,5
Cast: Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour
Director: Aisling Chin-Yee
Writers: Alanna Francis, Mark Van de Ven
Cinematography by Daniel Grant
Film Editing by Véronique Barbe, Aisling Chin-Yee
Good dialogues and minority representation
Excellent personages
A good story but the direction could have been more dynamic… just as the music. All in all, a bit boring
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 4,7
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 7,1
TMDB 6,8
Critics average 6,0
Audience average 7,6
Original title: Als Hitler das Rosa Kaninchen stahl
Cast: Riva Krymalowski, Marinus Hohmann, Carla Juri, Oliver Masucci
Directed by Caroline Link
Writers: Anna Brüggemann, Judith Kerr, Caroline Link
Music by Volker Bertelmann
Cinematography by Bella Halben
Film Editing by Patricia Rommel
Good personages, dialogues, humor, and minority presence
Excellent gender content
A twisted and unrealistic story but within a comedy’s parameters
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 6,3
TMDB 6,0
Average critics —
Average public 6,3
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mischa Barton
Director: Tamra Davis
Writers: Tim Sandlin (novel), Tim Sandlin (screenplay)
Music by Stewart Copeland
Cinematography by Claudio Rocha
Film Editing by Luis Colina, Michael R. Miller
Good dialogues, direction, images and expression
The rich mix of images that are found in American Splendor is only used at the beginning of the movie, and a little bit at the end… The rest falls flat, but the anthropological touch gives the movie a fresh and original look
Certainly less adventurous and challenging than their first feature despite interesting themes such as attachment and parenting
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,0
Metascore 4,6
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 6,2
TMDB 6,2
Average critics 5,3
Average public 6,3
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Writers: Emma McLaughlin , Nicola Kraus
Music by Mark Suozzo
Cinematography by Terry Stacey
Film Editing by Robert Pulcini
Good direction
Great personages
Top gender content
Just as in 36 Fillette, we follow a not-even-sixteen-year-old girl and her still younger sister as they have their first sexual experience that ends up unexpectedly
A movie with the usual Catherine Breillat themes – female sexuality, age differences, virginity – in which everyone is lying to seduce someone else
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,4
Metascore 7,7
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 6,5
Average critics 7,6
Average public 6,8
Original title: A Ma Soeur
Cast: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo
Director: Catherine Breillat
Writer: Catherine Breillat
Cinematography by Giorgos Arvanitis
Film Editing by Pascale Chavance
Good script, personages, dialogues and direction
Excellent message
A poetic coming of age story in the USSR, in which girls and boys are discovering new freedoms. This leads to a generational conflict between the teachers who defend the traditions and their students.
A movie about trust and understanding the other
IMDB 7,1
Original title: Klyuch bez prava peredachi
Cast: Elena Proklova, Aleksey Petrenko,
Director: Dinara Asanova
Writer: Georgi Polonsky
Music by Evgeniy Krylatov
Cinematography by Dmitriy Dolinin, Yuri Veksler
Film Editing by Galina Subayeva
Good personages, direction, images and minority presence
Excellent message
The story of a passionate and idealist teen jihadist who suddenly realizes her ideals were misplaced
Nora El Koussour has a good screen presence
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,7
Average critics 7,6
Average public 7,3
Cast: Nora El Koussour, Ilias Addab, Hassan Akkouch
Director: Mijke de Jong
Writers: Jan Eilander, Mijke de Jong
Music by Can Erdogan
Cinematography by Danny Elsen
Film Editing by Dorith Vinken
Good script, personages, dialogues, direction and gender content
Documentary-like movie that follows a woman who is dying of cancer and gets frailer and frailer while surrounded by her (female) friends.
A touch of cinema-vérité certainly not to the taste of everyone although everything is filmed ‘smoothly’
IMDB 7,0
Original title: Brozer
Cast: Marnie Blok, Lieneke le Roux, Leonoor Pauw
Director: Mijke de Jong
Writers: Jolein Laarman
Music by Rutger Reinders
Cinematography by Ton Peters
Film Editing by Dorith Vinken
Good script, direction and minority presence
An original coming of age story
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,0
Metascore 6,0
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,5
IMDB 6,4
Average critics 6,5
Average public 7,0
Cast: Sabrina Carpenter, Maggie Siff, Danny Trejo
Director: Ani Simon-Kennedy
Writer: Ani Simon-Kennedy
Music by Morgan Kibby
Cinematography by Cailin Yatsko
Film Editing by Ron Dulin
Good humor, direction, images, gender content, and minority presence
A feminist version of a spaghetti western (inclusive a score à la Ennio Morricone) transposed in the landscape of the Sumbese Kampung (Indonesia)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,8
Metascore 7,7
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 7,0
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,4
Cast: Marsha Timothy, Yoga Pratama, Dea Panendra, Egy Fedly, Haydar Salishz
Director: Mouly Surya
Writer: Rama Adi, Garin Nugroho, Mouly Surya
Music by Yudhi Arfani , Zeke Khaseli
Cinematography by Yunus Pasolang
Film Editing by Kelvin Nugroho
Good script, personages, direction and images
Growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran
IMDB 7,7
Original title: Nafas
Cast: Mehran Ahmadi, Pantea Panahiha, Sareh Nour Mousavi
Director: Narges Abyar
Writer: Narges Abyar
Music by Masoud Sekhavat Doust
Cinematography by Saed Nikzat
Film Editing by Sajjad Pahlavanzadeh
Good script, personages, direction and images
A very worthy first feature!
The Indian title means “Zero Divided by Zero Equals Nothing” … which would have beem much too difficult for Western audiences 🙂
Music at times too intrusive and childish: just like too many cooks spoil the broth, too many musicians handling the music spoil the score
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 8,4
Average critics 6,5
Average public 8,2
Original title: Nil Battey Sannata
Cast: Swara Bhaskar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Riya Shukla
Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Writers: Nitesh Tiwari, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Music by Naren Chandavarkar, Rohan-Vinayak
Mmusic composed by Vinayak Salvi, Rohan Utpat
Cinematography by Gavemic U. Ary
Film Editing by Chandrashekhar Prajapati
Good personages, dialogues, gender content, minority presence and expression
Good movie although the “positive” side is a bit forced
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,1
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,9
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,3
Cast: Molly McCann, Clare Dunne, Ruby Rose O’Hara
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Writers: Clare Dunne
Music by Natalie Holt
Cinematography by Tom Comerford
Film Editing by Rebecca Lloyd
Good personages, dialogues, direction, images and minoeity representation
A movie that shows how duty but especially honor plays a central role in patriarchy
A typical 19th-century costume drama with quiite a dynamic script – a pity that the last scene is so ‘frozen’
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,0
TMDB 4,9
Average critics 4,4
Average public 5,8
Cast: Christian Slater, Jared Leto, Claire Forlani
Director: Radha Bharadwaj
Writers: Radha Bharadwaj, Wilkie Collins (novel)
Music by Richard G. Mitchell
Cinematography by David Johnson
Film Editing by Craig Nisker
Good direction and message
Top gender content
Original movie combining a girl’s coming of age while her mom goes through the process of becoming a man
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,0
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,3
TMDB 5,4
Average critics 7,1
Average public 6,2
Cast: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Imogen Archer
Director: Sophie Hyde
Writers: Matthew Cormack
Music by Benjamin Speed
Cinematography by Bryan Mason
Film Editing by Bryan Mason
Good direction
A charming romantic comedy about a man who gets the chance to revisit the past to get rid of his ghosts… Some hiccups in the realization but good acting
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,8
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 3,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,2
Average critics 4,3
Average public 6,5
Cast: Douglas Henshall, Lena Headey, Penelope Cruz, Elizabeth McGovern, Mark Strong
Directed by Maria Ripoll
Written by Rafa Russo
Music by Bernardo Fuster, Ángel Illarramendi, Luis Mendo
Cinematography by Javier Salmones
Film Editing by Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Good script and message
Excellent gender content
Top minority representation
A fine and too heavy movie about the choices and decisions a pregnant woman has to make between her career and motherhood. The movie brings also the disadvantages African-Amerocans face into perspective, disadvantages that even their (caucasian) teacher has difficulty to fathom.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore 6,5
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 5,9
Average critics 6,9
Average public 6,2
Cast: Cobie Smulders, Anders Holm, Gail Bean
Director: Kris Rey
Writers: Megan Mercier, Kris Rey (as Kris Swanberg)
Music by Keegan DeWitt
Cinematography by Dagmar Weaver-Madsen
Film Editing by Zach Clark
Good personages, dialogues, images, music and gender content
Excellent direction
An abstract thriller with a somewhat run-of-the-mill story, but very original in the way it’s filmed and edited, with action, images and sounds at times loose from each other.
Great acting by Kate Lyn Sheil
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore 7,0
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,2
Average critics 7,1
Average public 6,3
Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, AJ Bowen
Director: Amy Seimetz
Writer: Amy Seimetz
Music by Ben Lovett
Cinematography by Jay Keitel
Film Editing by David Lowery, Amy Seimetz
Great personages and music
Excellent humor
Welcome in the chaotic world of Emily Marin… although it could have been worse
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore 7,3
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 6,2
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,6
Cast: Noel Wells, Nick Thune, Britt Lower, Daniella Pineda
Director: Noel Wells
Writer: Noel Wells
Cinematographer: Dagmar Weaver-Madsen
Editor: Terel Gibson
Composer: Ryan Miller
Good personages and music
Excellent gender content
Top minority representation
A look at the macho and patriarchal world of a ‘tinker’ community in post-Second World War Ireland
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,8
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 5,7
Average critics 5,8
Average public 6,4
Cast: Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins
Director: Carmel Winters
Writer: Carmel Winters
Cinematography by Michael Lavelle
Film Editing by Julian Ulrichs
Good personages and direction
A dominant woman imposes her fears (of marriage, of having children) to her friends
Interesting subject but the handling lacks nuances
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,4
Metascore 5,7
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,0
Average critics 5,7
Average public 6,2
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter, Skylar Bernon
Director: Clea DuVall
Writer: Clea DuVall
Music by Sara Quin
Cinematography by Polly Morgan
Film Editing by Tamara Meem
Good minority representation
Excellent music
“It’s A Wonderful Life” transposed in the 1970s in an African-American community
Great singing by Whitney Houston in an entertaining movie that reminds too much of the original but, even though heavily sexualized, pales beside it.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,9
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 5,6
Average critics 6,7
Average public 6,2
Cast: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance
Director: Penny Marshall
Writers: Robert Nathan (novel), Robert E. Sherwood, Leonardo Bercovici
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by Miroslav Ondrícek
Film Editing by George Bowers, Stephen A. Rotter
Good script and dialogues
Excellent direction and gender content
The cross-currents of passion in the autonomous world of a female boarding school: exquisitely ambiguous
“a very early piece of queer cinema history” [Beatrice Loayza]
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
IMDB 7,1
Cast: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Marie-Claire Olivia
Director: Jacqueline Audry
Writers: Colette Audry, Dorothy Bussy (novel)
Music by Pierre Sancan
Cinematography by Christian Matras
Film Editing by Marguerite Beaugé
Good images and music
Top gender content
Early 20th century in a remote province of Catholic Spain, two young women fall in love with each other at first sight.
A beautifully pictured (black and white) movie with an abrupt end
A small parallel can be made with The Secret Life Of Words in the short but intense moment when the suffering of Marcella is revealed
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,7
Metascore 3,3
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,5
Average critics 4,5
Average public 6,5
Cast: Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, Sara Casasnovas
Director: Isabel Coixet
Writers: Isabel Coixet (screenplay by), Narciso de Gabriel (based on the literary essay by)
Music by Sofia Oriana Infante
Cinematography by Jennifer Cox
Film Editing by Bernat Aragonés
Great personages
Excellent gender content and message
Sometimes, it’s good to be reminded to which extreme religious orthodoxy can lead, for the type of civil war that is described here could happen anywhere 😦
It also helps us cherish the freedom we have, for we cannot take it for granted
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 6,8
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,0
IMDB 7,0
Average critics 7,2
Average public 8,0
Cast: Lyna Khoudr, Yasin Houicha, Nadia Kaci, Shirine Boutella, Amira Hilda Douaouda
Director: Mounia Meddour
Writer: Mounia Meddour. Fadette Drouard
Cinematographer: Léo Lefèvre
Editor: Damien Keyeux
Composer: Robin Coudert
Good humor
Excellent dialogues, gender content and minority presence
In a highly sexualized world 3 girlfriends break up the relationships they are in. The story of three young adults coming of age, with a lot of immaturity… I wonder if they will ever come out of it!
Messy direction and weak male characters but a very diverse cast and upbeat dialogues
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,0
Metascore 6,3
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,2
Average critics 6,6
Average public 6,7
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, LaKeith Stanfield, Brittany Snow
Director: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Writer: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Music by Germaine Franco
Cinematography by Autumn Eakin
Film Editing by Mollie Goldstein, Jeffrey Wolf
Good story and music
Excellent gender content
The thousand-and-one nuances and colors of the world of ‘bitches’
Another coming of age in which young adults try to grow out their high school past
IMDB 6,7
Cast: Melody Melendez, Camila Banus, Nicole Bilderback, Molly Evensen
Director: Melissa Vitello
Writers: Melissa Vitello, Bryan Ricke
Cinematography by Bryan Ricke
Film Editing by Bryan Ricke
Good script and message
Excellent gender content and minority representation
A young single mother of two is too proud to tell that she’s HIV positive and has to struggle to gather the money she needs to start a business
Although the movie leaves behind the idea that it was made as a vehicle to convince African women with HIV to come out of their isolation, it also illustrates the harsh reality of the life these women have, and the role the community plays in their life
IMDB 6,7
Cast: Bello Rashid, Nkwabi Elias Ng’angasamala, Sesilia Florian Kilimila
Director: Leanne Welham
Writers: Sophie Harman, Leanne Welham
Music by Tim Morrish
Cinematography by Craig Dean Devine
Film Editing by Kant Pan
Good dialogues and direction
A children tale
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,9
Metascore 7,4
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,3
Average critics 8,4
Average public 7,7
Cast: Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Laura Crossley, Maggie Smith
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writers: Frances Hodgson Burnett (book), Caroline Thompson (screenplay)
Music by Zbigniew Preisner
Cinematography by Roger Deakins
Film Editing by Isabelle Lorente
Good script, images and message
Excellent minority representation
The true story of a Welsh journalist during the big famine of the 1930s in Ukraine, the Soviet propaganda, and the Western world abiding to it, intertwined with George Orwell writing Animal Farm. Quite a challenge but realistically brought to an end
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,7
Metascore 6,7
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,8
Average critics 7,0
Average public 6,8
Cast: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle, Fenella Woolgar, Kenneth Cranham
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writer: Andrea Chalupa
Cinematographer: Tomasz Naumiuk
Editor: Michał Czarnecki
Composer: Antoni Lazarkiewicz
Good minority presence
Top gender content and message
A movie with lots of clichés (in the story and personages, but also in the way it’s filmed) but it uses the clichés to make its point loud and clear
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,1
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,0
IMDB 6,1
Average critics 6,8
Average public 5,6
Cast: Haley Lu Richardson, Barbie Ferreira, Giancarlo Esposito
Director: Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Writers: Jenni Hendriks, Rachel Lee Goldenberg
Cinematography by Doug Emmett
Film Editing by Julia Wong
Good humor and direction
Excellent gender content and message
Everyone is doing it but no one admits it!
A teenage girl tries to understand why she’s being rekected as a weirdo-psycho pervert for wanting to discover sex while she sees everyone around her doing it… Fortunaltely, sex is lately a bit more libertated, but hypocrisy still prevails
Interesting ending scene between the girl and the priest
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,0
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,8
Cast: Natalia Dyer, Francesca Reale, Alisha Boe
Director: Karen Maine
Writer: Karen Maine
Music by Ian Hultquist
Cinematography by Todd Antonio Somodevilla
Film Editing by Jennifer Lee
Good script and direction
Excellent images
An original script and, as usually with Marjane Satrapi, strong visual expression
Good performance by Ryan Reynolds
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,6
Metascore 5,8
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 6,4
Average critics 6,6
Average public 6,5
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver
Director: Marjane Satrapi
Screenplay: Michael R. Perry
Director of Photography: Maxime Alexandre
Editor: Stéphane Roche
Good direction and music
Excellent images
A man in a loveless marriage decides to die when his wife breaks his violin… Various styles happily mixed, with lots of surprising images
Strong visual expression
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,8
Metascore 6,9
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 7,0
Average critics 7,9
Average public 7,1
Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Mathieu Amalric, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros
Directors: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud,
Writers: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Music by Olivier Bernet
Cinematography by Christophe Beaucarne
Film Editing by Stéphane Roche
Good script, personages, dialogues and direction
Excellent humor and message
Lots of humor in a serious comedy over the right to die
The weak minority presence is certainly a pity!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 7,1
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,2
Original title: Mita Tove
Cast: Ze’ev Revach, Levana Finkelstein, Alisa Rozen, Ilan Da, Rafael Tabor
Director: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon
Writer: Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon
Music by Avi Belleli
Cinematography by Tobias Hochstein
Film Editing by Einat Glaser-Zarhin
Great personages, dialogues, direction, images and gender content
A movie made with little means but that reaches its goal
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,7
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 7,1
Average critics 6,7
Average public 7,3
Cast: Melanie Mayron, Eli Wallach, Adam Cohen
Director: Claudia Weill
Writers: Claudia Weill, Vicki Polon
Music by Michael Small
Cinematography by Fred Murphy
Film Editing by Suzanne Pettit
Good direction, images, music, gender content and message
A bit too linear to my taste
IMDB 7,4
Cast: Teyonah Parris, Gary Dourdan, Darius McCrary
Director: Christine Swanson
Writers: Rhonda Baraka, Christine Swanson
Music by Kurt Farquhar
Cinematography by Tommy Maddox-Upshaw
Film Editing by Grisha Alasadi
Good music and gender content
Top minorities representation and message
The story of a great woman that could have been told less straightforwardly
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6.6
Metascore 6,6
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,4
IMDB 6,5
Average critics 4,7
Average public 8,0
Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Story by Gregory Allen Howard
Writer: Gregory Allen Howard, Kasi Lemmons
Cinematographer: John Toll
Editor: Wyatt Smith
Composer: Terence Blanchard
Great script, personages, music, minority presence and message
A good story and a mysterious lead personage who only gets partially revealed
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,5
Metascore 7,5
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,0
IMDB 6,7
Average critics 7,1
Average public 6,9
Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo, Vinicio Marchioni, Iaia Forte
Director: Valeria Golino
Novel: Angela Del Fabbro
Screenplay: Valeria Golino, Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella
Music by Christian Rainer
Cinematography by Gergely Pohárnok
Film Editing by Giogiò Franchini
Good script, direction, gender content and message
A ‘light’ and sunny movie in which each and every one takes from and gives to others
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,5
Metascore 7,8
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,0
IMDB 5,6
Average critics 7,7
Average public 5,8
Cast: Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Writers: Teddy Lussi-Modeste, Rebecca Zlotowski
Cinematography by Georges Lechaptois
Film Editing by Géraldine Mangenot
Good humor, direction and gender content
Two high school nerdy girlfriends decide to ditch their “good girls” reputation before leaving high school.
A movie that keeps surprising you
Metascore 6,3
IMDB 6,0
Cast: Chanté Adams, Jenica Bergere, Matt Besser
Director: Laura Terruso
Writers: Jennifer Nashorn Blankenship, Laura Terruso
Music by Jay Israelson
Cinematography by Benjamin Rutkowski
Film Editing by Stacey Schroeder, John Wesley Whitton
Good personages, images and message
Top minority representation
Although script and direction are at times a bit clumsy, the movie has lots of good things and a good feeling about it
A very diversified cast, from beginning to end
As for the title, a mysterious choice…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,1
Metascore 4,9
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 9,4
IMDB 5,6
Average critics 5,8
Average public 7,5
Cast: Leslie Bibb, Josh Duhamel, Sharon Lawrence, Kevin Alejandro, Georgia King
Director: Vicky Wight
Writer (novel): Katherine Center
Writer: Vicky Wight
Cinematographer: Aaron Kovalchik
Editor: Suzanne Spangler
Composer: Sherri Chung
Good personages
Excellent minority representation
Top gender content and message
Great performance by Amy Ryan, but above all a story with a strong message bringing the right perspective on gender and minorities
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,0
Metascore 6,7
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,1
Average critics 6,7
Average public 6,1
Cast: Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke, Gabriel Byrne. Oona Laurence
Director: Liz Garbus
Screenplay: Michael Werwie
Book: Robert Kolker
Director of Photography: Igor Martinović
Fun and some beautiful scenes
A sober movie, despite the exuberance of some personages
And for those of you who like Agnes Jaoui. her impact on the movie is very present
IMDB 6,8
Original title: Du vent dans mes mollets
Cast: Agnès Jaoui, Denis Podalydès, Isabelle Carré
Director: Carine Tardieu
Writers: Olivier Beer, Raphaële Moussafir, Carine Tardieu
Music by Eric Slabiak
Cinematography by Antoine Monod
Film Editing by Reynald Bertrand, Nathalie Hubert, Sylvie Landra
Top gender content
A movie with double insight: an insider look at the training and the routine an
astronaut has to follow before leaving earth; a take on how difficult it is for a female astronaut to combine her expected motherly role and the high intensity of a training set in a structure thought and made for men. The end credits make us discover all these ‘mothers’ who went on space missions.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,0
Metascore 7,5
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,3
Average critics 7,3
Average public 6,3
Cast: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon
Director: Alice Winocour
Writers: Alice Winocour, Jean-Stéphane Bron
Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cinematography by Georges Lechaptois
Film Editing by Julien Lacheray
Traditions, older people, minorities, these are among Naomi Kawase’s favorite themes. Here, an old sick woman changes the people around her
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,1
Metascore 6,0
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,4
Average critics 6,9
Average public 7,7
Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writer: Naomi Kawase
based on the novel by Durian Sukegawa
Cinematographer: Shigeki Akiyama
Editor: Tina Baz
Composer: David Hadjadj
Good personages, direction and images
A journey inside three women who are running away, filmed in three different ways
Original direction
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore 7,0
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,5
Average critics 7,4
Average public 6,7
Cast: Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk
Director: Rebecca Miller
Writers: Rebecca Miller
Music by Michael Rohatyn
Cinematography by Ellen Kuras
Film Editing by Sabine Hoffman
See next movie Laggies
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,2
Metascore 5,5
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,0
IMDB 5,3
Average critics 5,7
Average public 5,2
Cast: Rosemarie DeWitt, Josh Pais, Ellen Page, Scoot McNairy, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, Alycia Delmore
Director: Lynn Shelton
Writer: Lynn Shelton
Music by Vinny Smith
Cinematography by Benjamin Kasulke
Film Editing by Lynn Shelton
Top gender content
How men are afraid of “pussing out”!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,7
Metascore 7,4
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,2
IMDB 6,0
Average critics 7,6
Average public 6,1
Cast: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard
Directed and written by Lynn Shelton
Music by Vinny Smith
Cinematography by Benjamin Kasulke
Film Editing by Nat Sanders
Excellent direction
Obscure quest, decrepit environment, bestial relationships, a father-daughter macrocosm, an homage to Tarkovsky…
A movie rich in suggestions without giving any clear direction to the viewer
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,5
Metascore 7,7
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,6
IMDB 5,9
Average critics 8,4
Average public 5,8
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia Goth
Director: Claire Denis
Writer: Claire Denis, Geoff Cox, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Editor: Guy Lecorne
Composer: Stuart Staples, Tindersticks
I miss cultural references to enjoy these apparently unfocused
aspects of the childhood of Hape Kerkeling, one of Germany’s most beloved comedian
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 7,5
Average critics —
Average public 3,8
Original title: Der Junge muss an die frische Luft
Cast: Julius Weckauf, Luise Heyer, Sönke Möhring, Diana Amft
Director: Caroline Link
Writers: Ruth Toma (screenplay), Hape Kerkeling (book)
Music by Niki Reiser
Cinematography by Judith Kaufmann
Film Editing by Simon Gstöttmayr
Excellent minority presence
A good story over a girl whose parents are deaf and who always finds a way to preserve herself from any outside pressure that would force her to do or accept things that she doesn’t want. It first starts when she, as a child, has to translate the reprimanding remarks of her teachers to her deaf parents. Later, she refuses the help of her favorite aunt when she realizes that this aunt does not accept her musical taste.
Realistically filmed, but it would have been better if Caroline Link had taken a real musician to play the lead character, and if she had allowed silent conversations on the screen (by using subtitles for the parts in sign language) instead of having them spoken by another personage.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,4
Average critics 8,1
Average public 7,8
Original title: Jenseits der Stille
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Tatjana Trieb, Howie Seago, Emmanuelle Laborit, Sibylle Canonica
Directed by Caroline Link
Written by Caroline Link, Beth Serlin
Music by Niki Reiser
Cinematography by Gernot Roll
Film Editing by Patricia Rommel
A young girl tries magic to bring her mother happiness: it works for everyone around her except for the mother
As in her first feature, Double Happiness, women are depicted as flexible, adapting themselves to new circumstances while men heavily suffer from the Confucian patriarchal ideology in which they are still stuck
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,3
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,5
Average critics 5,3
Average public 6,9
Cast: Sandra Oh, Valerie Tian, Ric Young
Director: Mina Shum
Writers: Dennis Foon, Mina Shum
Music by Andrew Lockington
Cinematography by Peter Wunstorf
Film Editing by Alison Grace
Another “dumb blonde” movie with great dialogues and good acting by Alicia Silverstone
However, heavy on traditional gender roles and light on content…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,8
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,8
Average critics 7,5
Average public 7,3
Cast: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy
Director: Amy Heckerling
Writer: Amy Heckerling
Music by David Kitay
Cinematography by Bill Pope
Film Editing by Debra Chiate
For those of you who love Japan (and/or sashimi), an interesting insider view
on the fish farming industry
Besides, a look at how difficult relationships in Japan are and why they are so codified
IMDB 6,5
Cast: Tom Fujita, Hidetoshi Hoshida, Fûka Koshiba
Director: Mana Yasuda
Excellent script (9)
Foreign films sometimes confront us with reactions or expressions that seem strange to us. For example, as an European citizen, I find the reaction of ‘shame’ in American movies – when a man is chocked when he unintendly sees female nudity – extremely hypocritical, even though I’ve seen it so many times…) Anyway, very little of this in this Japanese movie (except at one moment, with the cat…)
A fantasy dealing with mature subjects!
IMDB 6,3
Original title: Kohi ga Samenai Uchi Ni
Cast: Kasumi Arimura, Motoki Fukami,
Director: Ayuko Tsukahara
Writer: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Music by Masaru Yokoyama
Cinematography by Norimichi Kasamatsu
Film Editing by Ryûji Miyajima
Objectified because of their sex, women decide to return the compliment to men by objectifying them for their money
A black-and-white world as it depicts gender relationships, but an intimate world of friendship and trust between women as well
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,9
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,3
Average critics 7,6
Average public 6,9
Cast: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Lizzo, Cardi B
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Screenplay: Lorene Scafaria
Director of Photography: Todd Banhazl
Editor: Kayla Emter
Excellent direction (9)
A movie that shows how a long winter (with snow melting everything into a colorless nature) brings people to do the craziest things
A movie in which Fins either drink to death or flee their country
A movie in which an Iraqi refugee brings some ‘value’ into the decadent/hopeless life of a Finnish woman who spends her time drinking and partying
Great Film Editing by Antti Reikko
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,9
Average critics 7,4
Average public 6,9
Cast: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Oona Airola
Director: Miia Tervo
Writer: Miia Tervo
Music by Jaakko Laitinen, Lau Nau
Cinematography by Arsen Sarkisiants
Film Editing by Antti Reikko
2 mothers, 2 daughters, almost no male around, a lot of sharp moments
Good editing, although at times a bit too cryptic
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,5
Average critics 7,4
Average public 5,5
Cast: Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour
Director: Aisling Chin-Yee
Writers: Alanna Francis, Mark Van de Ven
Cinematography by Daniel Grant
Film Editing by Véronique Barbe, Aisling Chin-Yee
A feel-good and girl-success story…
The music emphasizes the ‘nationalistic’ message of the movie
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,2
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 6,8
Average critics 6,2
Average public 7,4
Cast: Teresa Palmer, Sam Neill, Sullivan Stapleton
Director: Rachel Griffiths
Writers: Andrew Knight, Elise McCredie
Music by David Hirschfelder
Cinematography by Martin McGrath
Film Editing by Jill Bilcock, Maria Papoutsis
A middle-aged mother starts a relationship with her stepson, but pushes him to suicide to prevent him from destroying her family.
One critic saw Anne (Trine Dyrholm) as “one of the most complicated female villains of recent memory.” I saw a woman who seeks to fulfill unsatisfied sexual needs, but realizes when it’s too late that she will lose her daughters. The price to pay for her sexual escapade is too high, and she fights to the most dramatic end. A man who would have sex with the (adult) daughter of his ex-wife would not be punished as harshly…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 6,7
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 7,2
Average critics 7,0
Average public 7,4
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper
Director: May el-Toukhy
Writers: Maren Louise Käehne, May el-Toukhy
Music by Jon Ekstrand
Cinematography by Jasper Spanning
Film Editing by Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen
Good script and direction (8)
Not to say no to her friends, a woman loses everything, without even noticing ….
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,9
Roger Ebert 7,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,3
Average critics 7,1
Average public 6,3
Cast: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland
Director: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Writer: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Cinematography: Lowell A. Meyer
Original Music Composer: Samuel Nobles
Editor: Taylor Gianotas
Good personages and content (8)
Lacks the intricated complexity of previous works
The movie only ennumerates the gender and cultural ‘bias’ of a people in the eyes of a Westerner, and with its one-sided colionatist approach, it makes a strange follow-up to Even The Rain.
IMDB 6,1
Cast: Verónica Echegui, Sumyata Bhattarai, Norbu Tsering Gurung
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Writers: Icíar Bollaín, Paul Laverty
Music by Pascal Gaigne
Cinematography by Antonio Riestra
Film Editing by Nacho Ruiz Capillas
A movie heavy on Bruce Springsteen
Its themes similar to Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham: segregation, integration, traditions, and the powerful influence a celebrity can have on a teenager
What bothers most is not the omnipresent Springsteen, but the inapropriate ‘all is well’ ending
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 6,9
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,9
Cast: Viveik Kalra, Nell Williams, Hayley Atwell, Kulvinder Ghir, Aaron Phagura
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Writer: Gurinder Chadha, Sarfraz Manzoor, Paul Mayeda Berges
Director of Photography: Ben Smithard
Editor: Justin Krish, Susie Figgis
Music: A. R. Rahman, Bruce Springsteen
Good personages and content (8)
Predictable but strong first feature
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,6
Metascore 7,7
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 7,0
Average critics 8,0
Average public 7,4
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Gideon Adlon, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Josh Stewart
Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Writer: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, Brock Norman Brock
Writer: Mona Fastvold
Cinematographer: Ruben Impens
Editor: Géraldine Mangenot
Composer: Jed Kurzel
Good personages, direction (8)
Post World War One in the UK. A story that brings in parallel two personage whose experience relates to the old world: the soldier who suffers from PTSD and can’t enjoy that he’s still alive in the 20th century when his companion is dead; the cosmpolitan lady who still lives in the fancies of the 19th century and organizes parties to keep this world alive.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 6,6
Average critics 7,7
Average public 6,6
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox
Directed by Marleen Gorris
Written by Eileen Atkins
Based On The Novel by Virginia Woolf
Music by Ilona Sekacz
Cinematography by Sue Gibson
Film Editing by Michiel Reichwein
Good humor and direction (8)
Original, surprising and fun first feature
Pity the end doesn’t match the raw savagery of the first hour
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,2
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 7,0
Average critics 6,2
Average public 7,3
Cast: Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Director: Chanya Button
Writer: Charlie Covell
Music by Marc Canham, Candy Says
Cinematography by Carlos De Carvalho
Film Editing by Mark Trend
Excellent direction (9)
A movie that shows how a long winter (with snow melting everything into a colorless nature) brings people to do the craziest things
A movie in which Fins either drink to death or flee their country
A movie in which an Iraqi refugee brings some ‘value’ into the decadent/hopeless life of a Finnish woman who spends her time drinking and partying
Great Film Editing by Antti Reikko
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,9
Average critics 7,4
Average public 6,9
Cast: Mimosa Willamo, Amir Escandari, Oona Airola
Director: Miia Tervo
Writer: Miia Tervo
Music by Jaakko Laitinen, Lau Nau
Cinematography by Arsen Sarkisiants
Film Editing by Antti Reikko
MdW - Movies directed by Women 