VENICE, Sept 12 — A timely film about illegal abortions in 1960s France won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion on Saturday, capping a strong night for women including Penelope Cruz and Jane Campion. arrives just as the abortion debate is raging again over new restrictions in Texas and its decriminalisation in Mexico.
It was great year for female filmmakers, with best director going to iconic New Zealand auteur Jane Campion for her emotionally complex WesternAnd best screenplay went to Maggie Gyllenhaal for her directorial debut, an unflinching look at the difficulties of balancing career and motherhood starring British Oscar-winner Olivia Colman. “It’s like the Berlin Wall coming down for women. It was like the end of Apartheid.
“I think any reasonable humane, empathetic, conscionable person would have to be a feminist,” Affleck told AFP in an interview., meanwhile, turned the misogyny of Swinging Sixties London into a slasher horror flick.
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