Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank and American Honey Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird – all demonstrate a seductive depth of understanding of burgeoning female sexuality and identity. “The female experience, especially individuation and coming of age, is often so much more resonant when told by a conscious enlightened female gaze.” You only have to look at the many examples in the top 100 to see her point. Those have to be the work of female creatives or it’s not the female gaze.”īays thinks this is particularly relevant to the coming-of-age film. For us, it means who decides what goes in the frame, so that means who writes, directs or wrote the underlying story. “It is the lodestar of the work of Birds’ Eye View. Her identity developed in a very male space,” says Mia Bays, who screens female-led films around the UK as part of the Birds Eye View ‘Reclaim The Frame’ programme and firmly believes in a ‘female gaze’. “Varda’s point of view feels like that of a wise outsider because she was a photographer first. The highest rating comedy is not a rom-com, but the farcical, surreal Toni Erdmann, directed by Maren Ade. The closest thing to a superhero movie is the Iranian film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Ana Lily Amirpour), in which a female vampire preys on exploitative men. This is about films that have resonated with critics, rather than topping the box office – there’s no Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins), Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke) or What Women Want (Nancy Meyers). The most popular genre was drama, with romance – an area women are stereotypically relegated to – falling far behind. The 100 greatest films directed by women Why Agnès Varda got more votes than anyone else What the critics had to say about the top 25 Read more about BBC Culture’s 100 greatest films directed by women: Also featured were cult filmmaker Chantal Akerman, controversial French director Claire Denis – who’s known for her defiantly individualistic, often explicitly erotic work – British working-class heroine Andrea Arnold and Hollywood greats Sofia Coppola and Kathryn Bigelow. Jane Campion’s Oscar-winner The Piano made it to the top spot, shortly followed by Cléo from 5 to 7, the real-time drama from the late great Agnès Varda. It asked 368 journalists, critics, film programmers and academics to name their favourite films from female directors, and the results made fascinating reading. They added that their life since coming out has been full of “moments of happiness and moments of bliss and joy that are so fulfilling”.What happens when women tell stories? Diverse and wonderful things, according to BBC Culture’s survey of film experts. “My masculine and feminine energy are equal, so much so that I may be wearing a dress and heels right now, but I don’t identify as just a woman, or just a man, I identify as both.” In an interview with Today’s Hoda Kotb, they said: “The way that I explain being non-binary to people, or gender non-conforming, is for me personally – I can’t speak to everyone in their experience – when I came to the realisation that I am equally as masculine as I am feminine. Last month, Demi Lovato opened up more about their gender identity since coming out as non-binary, described their gender as “equally masculine and feminine”. Demi Lovato is ‘equally masculine and feminine’ ![]() They added that when they see photos of themselves on the red carpet as a teenager, “I feel like I’m not looking at me, but I recognise that that was a part of my journey”. “I don’t know who that person is, because the person I am today with short hair, and the person that I’ve been over the past year publicly, I mean, that’s who I feel like I am.” Lovato explained: “It’s hard when I see older images of myself looking super hyper feminine, that maybe fans make into fan art, and they don’t mean anything by it, but it’s like, I look at that fan art and I think that’s not me. Speaking recently at The 19th Represents 2021 Virtual Summit, they discussed the experience of seeing themselves with a different gender expression. Lovato came out as non-binary earlier this year, and revealed to the world that their pronouns are they/them. ![]() Demi Lovato finds it “hard” to see fan art and photos of themselves from before they came out.
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