All tagged Female
While mysteries featuring any gendered protagonist are interesting, women often bring something special to the table. It can be their cunning, their personal experiences, or just their ability to seem matronly and innocent when they are actually a master sleuth.
What’s missing from this sub-genre, are more films geared towards women. Raunchy, subversive, and absurdist are all monikers not often attached to films about girls becoming women.
It’s a known fact that film festivals aren’t as inclusive to women as they are to men. Cannes especially has faced criticism in the past for not including more female film directors, whose stories are often mitigated to only the indie sphere, where they are completely dependent on festival buzz
The Bechdel Test is anything but a bad thing for films. Realizing that a film does not pass this test is important in understanding filmmaking in 2015. Sadly, the test has not been reworked in the past thirty years, and therein lays an important and complex problem.
