As a straight man, I would say
I love women
There are also many female directors who love movies
And the great female directors in film history are endless
Jane Campion (piano lesson) who took the Palme d'Or, Sophia Coppola who won the Golden Lion (somewhere), Oscar director Catherine Bigelow (bomb disposal unit), New Wave godmother Agnès Varda and many more.
But in fact, compared with male directors who have a lot of directing opportunities, women are indeed a scarce resource in the directing industry.
At the same time, the director is a hard worker, and the physical requirements are higher, so that the female excellent director is even greater.
Just in 2016, women's theme films and female directors have risen, "July and Ansheng" gave birth to the golden horse film double yolk egg; Wang Yichun's "What is in the Black Place" brought a touch of freshness to the restless domestic theater line; Zhang Mo, the daughter of topic director Zhang Yimou, also made a low-key film of "28-year-old minors".
Looking at the world, women's power is even stronger, aunt Yu Pell's "She" and "Future Things" began to win North American awards; "Tony Erdman" set the highest score in Cannes field magazine, directly pointing to the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film; "American Sweetheart" is also a topic that literary and artistic young people can't avoid in 2016
Here's a look at six eye-catching female directors in 2016 who are smart and tasteful, and they are the flowers of independence that bloom behind the film.
1. Marlen Ade (Tony Erdmann)
The new generation of German directors Maren Ade should be the most amazing director in the world film industry in 2016
Her director,"Tony Erdmann," which set a new record for the cannes film festival in 2016, is now regarded as the biggest hit at the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
But she has only made three feature films so far
His feature film debut, Forest of Trees, won the World Cinema Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
The second directorial work, Perfect Second Pair, was produced by his own company and won the Silver Bear Award of the Jury of the 59th Berlin Film Festival and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress
Tony Erdman, her third directorial work, has won awards at various recent Oscar outposts and has set its sights on the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Like many directors, Marlen Ade developed a keen interest in film after graduating from the Munich Film Academy
She is full of talent, and her works are all self-written and self-directed
Not only is she a director, but she also runs her own film company
In addition to her own work, Ade also discovered the new generation of Portuguese directors Miguel Gomez (Taboo, One Thousand and One Nights)
In life, Ade is already a mother of two children, and the beauty is still there
Today, Marlen Ade is a force to be reckoned with in the German film industry
2. Kelly Reichard (some kind of woman)
"I'm more interested in the drama of life because you always have to keep fighting."
Less than 1.6 meters tall, Kelly Reichard gives the impression of a woman
Her father was a police officer, and as a child, Kelly would often take pictures with her father's camera to photograph the scene of the murder
She was born in Miami, Florida, southeastern, but she is good at depicting the American Midwest style.
This also gives her work a gritty and rebellious temperament
Her debut film, Weeds, was selected by several American film magazines as one of the best films of 1995. At the same time, it also received three nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Unfortunately, the independent production of that Society did not have the current influence
So for the next decade, Kelly made only three short films
The 1999 tribute is based on hermann Laucher's novel
In 2001, he filmed the experimental short film "That Year"
2004's Travis is about the war in Iraq
Kelly then meets Boletod Hines
His "machine producers" (a non-profit organization that specializes in supporting independent filmmaking) produced all of Kelly's subsequent films
In 2006, he filmed "Old Dreams" adapted from Chuang Raymond's novel collection Livability and won awards at several film festivals and film critics associations
2008's Wendy and Lucy, also based on Chuang Raymond's collection of novels Livability, was shortlisted for the "A Kind of Attention" section of that year's Cannes Film Festival.
The film won a Best Oscar nomination for Michelle Williams and also opened up a collaboration mode between the directors and directors
Blossom inside the wall and incense outside the wall
In 2011, Mick's Shortcut and 2013's Operation Night were twice shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival competition
The new film "Some Kind of Woman", launched at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2016, attracted a lot of attention, and this feminist film achieved good results in the awards season
Although many of her won awards, she had little commercial publicity
Kelly guards her artistic pursuits with persistence, like a western hero
3. Andrea Arnold (American Sweetheart)
Born in England, Andrea Arnold worked as a dancer and children's show host and actor, but never wanted to be a director
In the nineties, I had the idea of being a director
In 1998, he completed the short film "Milk"
In 2001, he completed the short film "Dog"
In 2003, he completed the short film "Wasp"
"The Hornet" won the Academy Award for Best Short Film that year, and Arnold was also hailed as the rising star of today's British film industry
In 2006, the completed feature film debut "The Red Road" won the Jury Award at the Cannes International Film Festival that year and the Best Debut Director Award at the 2007 British Academy Film Awards
In 2009, "Fish Tank" came out, and the film won many honors such as the Jury Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, the British Independent Film Festival, the British Independent Film Festival, and many other honors
Andrea Arnold has proven herself with Fish tank
But Arnold, who is not very prolific, has only made two works in recent years, one is "Wuthering Heights" five years ago, and the other is "American Sweetheart" in 2016.
The less than well-reacted Wuthering Heights adaptation of the male protagonist into a black man was unacceptable to some viewers who had a deep-seated impression of the original
But Arnold's interest was never on the famous book
As a new middle-aged female director in the UK, she has been committed to the excavation and creation of female characters and themes
So Arnold made this female perspective of "American Sweetheart"
The film shows the courage of the director to make a niche girl story into a 160-minute epic
Her images have a Ken Lodge-like realistic texture and are at the same time animated and beautiful
Arnold's sharpness and style are not inferior to those of male directors
It is worth mentioning that all three of the above works entered the annual top five of Sight and Hearing magazine in 2016
Also shining in 2016 were Mia Hansen-Love, Lucille Haz Harihlovich and Julia Dukono
4. Mia Hansen-Love
Mia Hansen-Love and her husband, Olivier Asayas, were the most successful couple in film in 2016
Olivier Assayas won best director in Cannes for Private Buyer
On the other hand, Mia also won the Best Director Award at the Berlin Film Festival for "Future Things"
Although the same award, Asayas is much more controversial, and Mia seems more deserved
"Things to come" gently portrays the tragic life of a middle-aged woman, without deliberately complaining about the injustice of life, but instead of the director's open-mindedness
Similarly, Mia retains the intellectual atmosphere that is common among manual party directors such as Hou Mai, which also makes her works more evocative
5. Lucille Haz Hallowic
Lucille Haz Harihlovic's husband is also a director
The couple worked very well together, and Noh would work as Lucille's cinematographer, and Lucille would write a script for No
Her directing style has also been influenced by some of her husbands
But that was before the feature film
After the feature film, Lucille no longer used Gaspar Noir as her label, but developed a unique film style: dystopia and cold feelings throughout the film. Restraint, darkness, and underwater photography have also become her labels
Her latest work, Evolution Island, won the Jury Special Award and Best Cinematography award at the 63rd San Sebastian International Film Festival
"Evolution Island" is a calm and restrained work, and many extended meanings can be found in the highly stylized images. There are subtle allegories of adolescence; there are nightmares; there are also nightmarish dark dishes
In short, students who like Bruno Dumont style can try this thriller with slightly sci-fi elements (leaving Gaspa Norte in the wind alone)
6. Julia Ducono
This year's surprise also includes Julia Ducono
Yes, she is not only a talented director, but also a big beauty
Casually pulling out a photo is a photo blockbuster
In addition, her feature film debut is also very eye-catching
"Eat Raw"
A bold, heavy-taste piece
At the heart of the film is a common sexual awakening, but it becomes a whole new enjoyment under Julia's careful packaging
Make a bet first
"Raw Eating" will be a surprise masterpiece that everyone will see this year