10 most influential female directors today

The evolution of sexist artistry, change of observation; movie lookreflexively focusing on modern society, progresses in an attempt to change its perspective, deviating from one-sided imbalance that projects on the screen the internal perniciousness of the patriarchal system. The most influential women directors of our time symbolize the overthrow heterosexual point of view and hid between angular folds toxic masculinitycapillary and penetrating. If male look who, with the help of a camera, transfers male rituals from film to screen, replaces the eye with a lens that reflects a state of inequality that has always weighed gender differently, the reversal that seeks to steer today tends to upset a poorly calibrated and misleading balancebringing into fashion feeling, will and feminine orientation, which have always been repressed, obscured by a passive and self-expanding social custom. Movements aimed at equalizing attention and opportunities are reflected in cellulose.on which, by means of the glance, the silent system is sounded for a long time, and which, in its ascent, acquires space and attention, is heard and seen.

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female look, day by day they increase in number, expanding the range of their activities and winning awards; to prove it, devastating Greta Gerwig today is at the top of the charts, and also on everyone’s lips, thanks to a bright and constantly growing success Barbie but like her, other great authors have alarmed the industry by shuffling its hierarchy in an attempt to suppress it. Down here 10 most influential women directors of our time.

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1. Greta Gerwig is the most influential female director of our time.

Born actress and versatile film director, Greta Gerwig is a current director who, while benefiting enormously from artistic and private partnerships with Noah Baumbach

, put forward the presentation and explanation of femininity, which he himself was looking for, using her as his muse. From Lady Bird (2017) a Barbie (2023) passing through Small woman (2019), the author had the opportunity to outline a clear attempt to pursue this change in the aforementioned view, often resulting in the rhetorical annoyance of presenting an outdated model in need of updating.

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2. Katherine Bigelow

2010 for Academy Awards it was an epochal year when the film industry opened one of its biggest openings for working women. Katherine Bigelowfourth woman in history to be nominated for the award best directionwas the first to be able to win the prize, thanks to the hard work put in for Injury locker. It is an impact movie, with a strong emotional suspense, which realistically tries to reconstruct often difficult and violent situations in order to maintain a strong tension and penetrate into the depths of its characters.

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3. Sofia Coppola

When art and cinema are a family business, everything seems to be simpler, but from the work done to date Sofia Coppola it can be concluded that there is a significant distance from the work of his father. Director’s Poetics Lost in translation – love in translationwho will soon return to cinemas with his new film, Priscilla, is characterized by an atmosphere that clings to reality, but moves away from it in the power of a dream revolving around the stories of complex characters; controversial films, fragile in their attitude to the individual and exploring the woman in her constant struggle with social customs.

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4. Frenchwoman Julie Ducournot is also one of the most influential female directors.

what from Julia Ducourneau it is, of course, a less grandiose name than those previously mentioned, but we can equally say that she represents one of the most striking examples of the reversal of class habits; winner golden palm To 74th Cannes Film Festivalobtained with the implementation of a very far-sighted Titans, should be regarded as one of the most interesting recordings of this decade. Many consider him the natural heir David Cronenbergfor his mentor makes the body, in his own case the female body, the object around which his own narrative is built, placing sexuality at his service and making horror his instrument.

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5. Chloe Zao

Second woman to win the title Best Director at the Oscars Chloe ZaoChinese naturalized American writer who in 2021 completely changed her career by creating Nomad. As seen in his best-known work, which again puts women at the center of everything, his will is to tell in the most documentary and realistic style the stories of marginalized, ghettoized characters, which are punctually drawn in a very wide framework where nature dominates.

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6. Celine Siamma

WITH Celine Siamma it goes even deeper: the woman is examined with respect and attention, with more attention and focus on the emotional aspect; strives for a continuous intimate depiction of relationships with constant visual reference to figurative art and with particular emphasis on gender identity. His declared homosexuality is manifested primarily in his most famous work, Portrait of a young woman on firededicated to his then partner, as well as co-hero of the film, Adele Haenel.

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7. Ava DuVernay is also one of the most famous female directors.

From the documentary to the artistic, passing through the endless nuances between one and the other part, Ava DuVernay today is one of the most powerful and overwhelming voices able to use the power of the audiovisual medium to tell stories of social injustice, in defense of civil rights that are not recognized or distributed unequally. It is an investigative cinema, a protest cinema that defends the weakest, for whom she offers a point of view equal to hers: the point of view of an African American woman. Miniseries created by Netflix, When they see us perfectly tells what she is trying to stop and does it through her documentary style, real, always looking for emotional authenticity.

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8. Alice Rohrwacher

Staying in the spirit of authenticity and its spasmodic sophistication, we come to us in Italy to mention the woman who, from short film to feature film, is proving to be the most influential local filmmaker in the last 20 years: Alice Rohrwacherat the Oscars last year Students. Alba’s older sister, the actress we know, attaches great importance to the relationships and relationships between the characters, especially if they belong to the same family, never abandoning the poetic narrative that gives the work its charm. Social dynamics, political dynamics, family dynamics, placed in turn in relation to places, with their own physical and temporal contextualization.

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9. Claire Denis

With the last two artists on our list, we’re going back in time, but only in age. The first of them, French director and screenwriter Claire Denis, born in 1946, is now considered decisive for the development of cinema in recent decades. Newbie with Chocolatesince 1988, then the author continued her career to this day, signing the famous SavorWith Robert Pattisonin 2018, e Stars at Noon Stars at Noon, last year. His exploration of human emotion runs through an aesthetic that he experiments with, addressing issues of great social and political importance, through symbolic suggestions and visionary settings.

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10. Jane Campion: A director with a long career

To conclude Jane Campionthe first who managed to impose a female look at the festival, winning golden palm in 1993 with piano lessons (subsequently also an Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay). Compared to previous ones, Campion can be considered one of the pioneers of a new perspective as opposed to patriarchal cinema; In fact, over the years, exploring the inner world of a woman, the director has always wanted to convey strong emotions, the search for female identity in an exquisite setting, in constant dialogue with the characters themselves and with their own depth of spirit.

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