6 Powerful Women In Film
As the year draws to a close, Hollywood is making a point to remind us that, as the great Annie Lennox said (sang!) best, “Sisters are doin’ it for themselves!”
Don’t miss these 6 recent movies that revolve around powerful women.
TÁR – Cate Blanchett’s performance as Linda Tár, a world-famous symphony conductor, is so stunning and believable that people have been shocked to learn Tár is a fictional character. What’s more, the film recently racked up 3 Golden Globe nominations for Best Screenplay, Best Actress – Drama and Best Motion Picture – Drama.
She Said – The real-life New York Times investigation into sexual assault allegations against infamous film producer Harvey Weinstein is brought to the big screen and is heartbreaking, insanely frustrating and hopeful all at once. Carey Mulligan earned a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe nomination for her role as one of the journalists who exposed Weinstein’s horrific, years-long pattern of abuse.
Call Jane – “Women helping women” is the theme of this drama starring Elizabeth Banks as Joy, a 1960s housewife whose life-threatening pregnancy leaves her nowhere to turn for help but the “Janes”—a secret network of women who risk jailtime in order to secure medical care for Joy … and thousands of others in need.
The Woman King – No one expected this movie to be the 2022 breakout that it’s become, but anyone who’s seen it is NOT surprised at all that Viola Davis earned a Best Actress – Drama Golden Globe nomination for her role as General Nanisca, who trains the Agojie—the African nation of Dahmoney’s all-female warriors. While Davis’s character is fictional, the Agojie and the Kingdom of Dahomey did actually exist for hundreds of years.
Don't Worry Darling – Olivia Wilde’s trippy thriller with a feminist bent stars Florence Pugh as Alice, a ‘50s housewife who moves with her husband Jack (Harry Styles) to a colorful but strraaannnnge neighborhood in the desert so he can help with his company’s secretive project nearby. While Jack’s co-workers’ wives seem content to clean, cook, make babies and have no idea what their spouses do all day, it doesn’t take long for Alice to rebel against her suffocating new life and start asking questions.
Everything Everywhere All At Once – And finally we come to a film I adored when I first saw it in March, and that is now finally getting all the kudos it so richly deserves. Not only is it winning big with indie film and local critics groups, but it’s also nabbed 6 Golden Globe nominations across all the major categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Acting nods for its lead Michelle Yeoh and her co-stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan. Yeoh is straight-up amazing as a beaten-down laundromat owner who must summon strength from her other selves across parallel universes in order to save the world.