Did you hear the one about the 34-year-old American woman who directed a starry $40m period studio movie in France and brought it in on time and on budget? No? Funny that. Female filmmakers are feeling particularly invisible at the moment, and no wonder; at this year’s Venice Film Festival, only one film directed outright by a woman — the formidable Danish entry Woman Unknown, by May el-Toukhy, one of the best in the official selection — was deemed acceptable for the 21-film Competition. (And, sorry, no; making Maggie Gyllenhaal head of the jury is not an acceptable salve for
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