Ten films with extraordinary women

I don’t know if you are aware that the first female director ever mentioned was the Parisian Alice Guy-Blaché. She began her relationship with the seventh art in 1894 and was a contemporary of the Lumière brothers. But who is remembered? It goes without saying…

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ELLE

Paul Verhoeven (2017)

The main character in this film, Michelle, is an amoral being. The Dutch director shows a world inhabited by miserable characters in a film that is critical of a society in which a woman can get promoted yet never achieve power. Yet again Isabelle Huppert steals the limelight as an unscrupulous, unhappy, sociopathic woman who punishes those near her while also being strong and powerful. Not all of us are Bambis.

Why? To cross the boundaries of the morality instated as our social legacy, Verhoeven’s film makes it clear true monsters lurk behind everyone. Michelle is one, and those who accompany her paint one of the most unpleasant portraits in recent years. In short, women may also be unable to love.