Discover five recent female-centered films and the women directors behind them
At the end of March, the China premiere of the award-winning French film Anatomy of a Fall (2023) went viral for the wrong reasons. An audience gathered at Peking University to hear a panel including director Justine Triet discuss the film, which follows the trial of a woman for her husband’s apparent murder, was incensed by two male panelists who hijacked the conversation and rejected the film’s feminist interpretation. A meandering speech by host Chen Ming, a TV personality, was even interrupted by the audience shouting: “Let the director talk!”
Liu Jue is the co-managing editor of The World of Chinese Magazine. She has a Master of Arts in Communication from Middle Tennessee State University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Minzu University. She has been working for TWOC since 2012. She is interested in covering history, traditional culture, and Chinese language.
