“ I’m probably going to get in trouble for saying this, but I’ve always felt like I can tell the difference when I’m watching a film directed by a woman. I just feel like the metaphors are more eloquent, by which I mean, they don’t shout as much. Even for myself, when I try to make a movie with a message, it’s clear I’m trying to make a movie with a message, whereas when I watch a Lynne Ramsay film or a Claire Denis film, it’s the metaphors you can feel—Lucrecia Martel, especially. They’re made with these nuts and bolts moments. It’s the whole show versus tell thing. Women show and men tell as far as filmmaking goes. Obviously not every woman film director is as gifted as Claire Denis, Lynne Ramsay or Lucrecia Martel. That’s the same as not every male director is as gifted as—I can’t even pull male directors out of my head like that.
Barry Jenkins, director of SXSW entry Medicine For Melancholy, in an extended interview at ShortEnd Magazine.
7 months ago