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Women's Work: Essential Films by Female Filmmakers
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Directed by Angela Schanelec | 95 mins | 2019
One of European art cinema’s most distinctive voices, Schanelec—Silver Bear winner for Best Director at this year's Berlinale—orchestrates a tense elliptical drama that’s part psychological close-up, part middle-class Berlin pastiche. Widowed mother-of-two Astrid (Maren Eggert) tries to get a handle on her family, her sorrow, and her teenage son’s absence, with Schanelec refracting her surging emotions through fragmentary vignettes. Featuring a beguiling Franz Rogowski (Passages, Undine).
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Directed by Bette Gordon | 100 mins | 1983
A young woman lands a job as a cashier at a downtown porno theater, and soon finds herself inexorably drawn towards what’s happening onscreen—as well as other troubling fantasies. One of the great independent films of the ’80s, featuring a who’s who of t...
