French Female Filmmakers!
While Hollywood struggles with a vast gender divide, French cinema has a thriving culture of female auteurs. And we are marking woman’s history month with three of our all time favourite French films directed by women, covering intergenerational chaos in Morocco, to New York hipsters, to French acting royalty, acting royal…
Written and directed by Laïla Marrakchi (Marock) Rock the Casbah introduces to a once tight knit family now scattered across international borders, as they gather for the funeral of the family patriarch (the legendary Omar Sharif). Sparks start to fly when the youngest daughter, now an actress in America, arrives. Her return provides the opportunity to settle some scores with her sisters, as the order once maintained by their father breaks down. Between laughter and tears, a collective hysteria leads each of the women to face up to some home truths.
Available now on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play
Written and directed by Géraldine Nakache with filmmaking partner Hervé Mimran (All That Glitters), in Nous York 30-somethings Michaël, Nabil and Sylvain head to New York to surprise their friend Samia (Leila Bekhti) on her birthday. But Samia who now shares a fabulous loft with her boss a temperamental starlet (Sienna Miller), has moved on from the tough housing project they shared as teens, and the friends are forced to reassess the bond they once shared.
Available now on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play
Written, directed by, and starring modern day comedy legend Valérie Lemercier joined by arguably the reigning queen of French cinema Catherine Deneuve, Palais Roayale is a joyfully silly comedy, about a ordinary woman (Lemercier) is thrust into the limelight when she ‘accidentally’ becomes a queen… faced with an icy queen regent (Deneuve), she must learn how to behave like the monarch she now is. Full of wincingly awkward humour, but anchored by a warm heart, this is a wonderful comedy for the whole family to enjoy.
Available now on iTunes and Amazon
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