Mayday director Karen Cinorre on the complicated optics of depicting female violence on-screen.
characters are too violent. This made them uneasy.tells the story of a young woman, Ana, whose life has been marred by violence, most of which I do not show on screen. When the film begins, she is on the brink of total despair. Then a storm comes, and she’s transported to a dreamlike, ravishing coastline, where, like Dorothy inshe embarks on an epic journey. The women she meets in this new world, which has aesthetic echoes of World World II-era Europe, live a life of wild abandon.
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Some of the actors told me that reading the film was a revelation because they felt seen and heard. They were thrilled to see complex, rambunctious women get to do all the things men get to do in movies – ride motorcycles, hurl themselves off cliffs, and fly planes. “Why shouldn’t a girl have fun shooting guns off the back of a submarine?” a reporter asked afterThey were also excited not to see women in a position we so often find ourselves on screen.
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