Mélanie Laurent’s The Mad Women’s Ball suffers in comparison to Alice Winocour’s Augustine (2011), which tackles the same story with more psychological complexity.
Directed by Women
Explore films by directors who identify as women.
TIFF Review: Aloners is a melancholy ode to society’s loners
South Korean filmmaker Hong Seong-eun’s Aloners is a low-key film about loneliness and how capitalism takes advantage of depressed people.
TIFF Review: Scarborough is one of the festival’s most stirring crowdpleasers
Scarborough, from directors Rich Williamson and Shasha Nakhai, is a big-hearted portrait of families in a low-income neighbourhood.
TIFF Review: Neus Ballús’s The Odd-Job Men is a delightful comedy
Neus Ballús’s The Odd-Job Men is a quiet, lovely little film that charts a week in the life of three “odd-job men” on the outskirts of Barcelona.
Sundance Review: CODA is a crowdpleaser with nuanced ideas about disability
Siân Heder’s crowd-pleaser, CODA, is a film that, in any other year, would have the Eccles Theatre on its feet with rapturous applause.
Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl) finds a new angle on life under fascism
Sandrine Kiberlain’s feature debut, Une jeune fille qui va bien (A Radiant Girl), is the story of an aspiring Parisian actress living under the Nazi occupation.