Jane Campion (“The Piano” and “The Power of the Dog”), Sofia Coppola (“Lost in Translation”), Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”), Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”), Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”), Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”) and Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”...
"I was very interested in how, during the trial, all the things that constitute her as a person and a woman, her power and strength, become what she's scrutinized for." But Triet was adamant to avoid the expectations of procedural films and courtroom dramas. Ambiguity runs throughout the...
Mulligan is wonderful and never overwhelming or overstating in portraying a woman who never set aside her own ambitions for the sake of her husband — even while having to stand by in the wings of his greatness. As a study of how the Bernsteins’ near-three-decade marriage endured Lenny...