FILM
Film both reflects and challenges the society in which it was created
Independent Movie Data Base
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13 Roses (Historical drama, 2007) - Spanish: Las 13 Rosas
Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro; Stars: Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Verónica Sánchez and Marta Etura.
Based on a true story, the film follows the tragic fate of 13 young women, fighting for their ideals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. All were executed.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0809533/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Trece_Rosas
Baztán Trilogy. (Mystery) - Spanish
Based on the Dolores Redondo mysteries. Inspector Amaia Salazar returns from Pamplona to Elizondo, to her childhood village in the Basque Baztán Valley, where mystery, reason, & spirituality collide. (Spanish-English)
Director: Fernando González Molina; Stars: Marta Etura, Nene
The Invisible Guardian – Orig: El guardián invisible (2017)
The Legacy of the Bones – Orig: Legado en los hueso (2019)
Offering to the Storm - Orig: Ofrenda a la tormenta (2020)
Water (Drama, 2005) – Indian/Canadian
Director/Writer: Deepa Mehta; Stars: Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas
The Tradition - Set in 1938 colonial India during Gandhi's rise to power, the story of an 8-year old child-widow who is sent to a widows' ashram to do penance and where she will be expected to work as a prostitute to pay her board -- like Kalyani, another young, beautiful widow. A third, older woman agonized about defying tradition to save them both.
3rd in a brilliant trilogy that depicts the restrictive lives of women struggling to survive in India.
The Women (Comedy, 1939), American – based on the play by Clare Boothe
Director: George Cukor; Script: Anita Loos; All Female Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Mary Boland
Catty gossip, infidelity, prima donas, and no sisterhood among the rich and aspiring
Remake unsuccessful: (2008) Director/writer Diane English; Stars Meg Ryan et al.
The Whale Rider. (Mythic Tale, 2002) – New Zealand - based on the book by Witi Ihimaera
Director/Script: Niki Caro; Stars: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton
Pai, a young Maori (Whangara people) girl feels drawn as a leader of her village, but tradition and her grandfather reject her claim. Good to watch with the grandchildren; Witi Ihimaera's daughter asked him to tell a tale about a girl hero. He did.
Related: The Making of “The Whale Rider.” (Documentary, 2003) - Director: Jonathan Brough
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (American Gothic, 1962) – novel by Henry Farrell
Director: Robert Aldrich; Script: Lukas Heller; Stars Bette Davis, Joan Crawford
Classic: Sibling rivalry run amok between aging actresses as characters & actors
Woman Under the Influence (Drama, 1970) – American
Director/Writer: John Cassavetes; Stars: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper
The film tells the story of Mabel, a housewife and mother of three, married to a violent husband construction worker. who does not adapt to social norms and suffers from emotional instability.
Rowlands proposed the original idea for the film about a character experiencing the dilemmas, problems, and concerns in the 1970s.
Yerma (Drama, 1998) - Spanish. Based on the play by Federico García Lorca
Director: Pilar Távora; Starring Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Juan Diego, Irene Papas
A childless woman's desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrible crime.