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Women's cinema - European: Encyclopedia II - Women's cinema - European

Elvira Notari was a pioneer of Italian cinema. During the "golden age" of "Classical" French cinema Jacqueline Audry was the only woman to direct commercial movies. In 1959 writer Marguerite Duras wrote the script for Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon Amour. She turned to directing with La Musica in 1966. Among the best known French women film makers are Agnes Varda, Claire Denis, Nelly Kaplan. The work of many more French women directors is rarely screened outside France. German woman filmmaker Helke Sander was also one of the pioneers of the feminist movement. Other prominent women film makers include Marg ...

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Women's cinema: Encyclopedia II - Women's cinema - European

Women's cinema - European

Elvira Notari was a pioneer of Italian cinema.

During the "golden age" of "Classical" French cinema Jacqueline Audry was the only woman to direct commercial movies. In 1959 writer Marguerite Duras wrote the script for Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon Amour. She turned to directing with La Musica in 1966. Among the best known French women film makers are Agnes Varda, Claire Denis, Nelly Kaplan. The work of many more French women directors is rarely screened outside France.

German woman filmmaker Helke Sander was also one of the pioneers of the feminist movement. Other prominent women film makers include Margarethe von Trotta and Helma Sanders-Brahms.

In Hungary Marta Meszaros has been making important films for decades.

Sally Potter is a prominent British feminist film maker. British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah explores the legacies of colonialism.