Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide
Janis L. Pallister, Ruth A. Hottell
Language: English
Pages: 290
ISBN: B01K0V6X8G
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Like its 1997 predecessor, Francophone Women Film Directors: A New Guide is both a teaching tool and a directory for use by scholars and students of film and literature.
Unique among guides dealing with film, both for its breadth and for the very fact that it is devoted exclusively to francophone women throughout the world, most of whom are omitted from other directories and studies, this guide contains listings of some three hundred francophone women filmmakers and their films.
Whenever possible, dates, brief biographies, descriptions, and brief critical analyses are included. Themes studied include such subjects as abortion, pornography, prostitution, and mother-daughter relationships.
A list of film sources and an extensive bibliography, and an index of geographical subdivisions, maximize the directory's usefulness.
sound: Serge Beauchemin et al.; editing: Claude Palardy. Cast: Caroline Dhavernas, Sebastien Huberdeau, Anick Lemay, Genevie` ve De´ silets, Franc¸ ois Papineau, Marie Tifo, Raymond Gloutier. Synopsis: Manou, who is sixteen, finds herself pregnant. Her mother has just died, and she learns nearly simultaneously that her sister is her real mother. She also falls in love with an unpredictable and complicated boy. Manou rushes into an adventure that will take her to l’Ile de Sable and to the
Juliette, a faded thirty-year-old, married, a mother, who performs oriental dances. Denis gets the idea of getting a hold of her in order to suggest that they celebrate his bac (degree), before he even gets it. Juliette accepts. The boy keeps going back to her, drawn as if by a magnet. Unless he is the magnet. Tr. from the following site (MonsieurCinema): Synopsis in French at: MonsieurCinema.com Commentary in French: Ste´ phanie Thonnet; MonsieurCinema.com La Nouvelle Eve (The New Eve) (1999, 94
Demarigny (Yann Andre´ a); Tanya Lopert (la femme de l’ambassadeur); Justine Le´ vy (l’employee´ de l’hoˆ pital); Sophie Milleron (l’infirmie`re). Synopsis: Cet amour-la` depicts ‘‘the aged and still sexual Marguerite Duras . . . near the end of her life. Visualized in flashes that seem to compress the time frame of a sixteen-year relationship, the film closely observes the author’s stormy late-life affair with a worshipful young male de´ vote´ , Yann Andrea. . . . The film wraps this bitter
the man begins to read the text written in a large student’s notebook sitting in front of him. French synopsis at Forum des images/festivals at internet site: http://www.vdp.fr/festivals/renc98/rencont.films.cdenis.html࠻keep .......................... 10890$ $CH1 12-09-04 09:49:45 PS PAGE 118 119 1: DIRECTORS AND THEIR FILMS S’en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die): (See Pallister Guide 61) (1993, 97 mins.) Also stars Solveig Donmartin as the club owner’s mistress. Boom-Boom (1994) Claire
techniques typical [of her work].’’ (France-Ame´ rique, 27 April-3 May 2002: 26). Le Rapport Darty (1989) Comment vont les enfants (1990) Contre l’oubli (1991) Lou n’a pas dit non (1994) Nous sommes tous encore ici (1997, 80 mins.) Synopsis: In three parts, bound together by a love of words and delight in quotations, and by the idea of opposition. The first dialogue, taken from the Gorgias of Plato, is between Callicles (Bernadette Lafont) and Plato (Aurore Cle´ ment). In the second dialogue