Night Moves
The BFI Film Festival gets underway next week and we are looking forward to an array of great films and talent.
There are set to be some great female filmmakers on shows in all of the major categories - we take a look at some of the stand out directors.
- Kelly Reichhardt - Night Moves
Night Movies is set to be one of the Gala films at the festival, and sees Kelly Reichhardt return to the director's chair.
This will be her first feature film since the success of Meek's Cutoff as she teams up with Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg and Peter Sarsgaard.
Written by Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond, Night Moves follows three environmentalists as the plan to blow up a dam.
The movie looks at the idea of protest and the reasons that people do fight for what they believe in and if it is selfless.
Reichhardt has made some terrific character driven movies in the past and Night Moves looks set to follow that fine tradition.
- Catherine Breillat - Abuse of Weakness
Abuse Of Weakness is one of the Official Competition entrants and the first feature film for Catherine Breillat since Bluebeard.
This is perhaps one of the director's most personal movies to date that follows the relationship between a woman who is partly paralysed after a stroke and a con man.
The movie leaves the audience to make up its own mind while being a compelling watch raising some great questions.
Isabelle Huppert, Kool Shen and Laurence Ursino make up a superb cast for what looks set to be a real contender for the top prize.
- Chloe Robichaud - Sarah Prefers To Run
Chloe Robichaud is making her feature film debut with new film Sarah Prefers To Run; the film will be featuring in the First Feature Competition category.
Robichaud has penned the screenplay as well as being in the director's chair, and has teamed up with actress Sophie Desmarais; she takes on the lead role of Sarah.
Sarah Prefers To Run follows the title character and the goals and aspirations that she has to be an athlete.
Sarah enters a marriage of convenience in a bid to make her athlete dreams reality.
The movie has been performing well on the festival circuit and looks set to be at hit in London.
- Anne Fontaine - Adore
Anne Fontaine is one of the most established female filmmakers that is on show at the London Film Festival, as she returns with her latest film Adore.
The movie sees her team up with actresses Naomi Watts and Robin Wright in this provocative drama.
Watts and Wright play lifelong friends who find themselves falling for each other's sons.
Adore is an adaptation of the novel by Doris Lessing and the screenplay has been written by Christopher Hampton.
- Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
One of the most poignant movies of the festival will be Enough Said as it is the last film from the late James Gandolfini.
The movie has been directed and written by Nicole Holofcener, in what is her first feature film since Please Give.
Enough Said follows the blossoming romance between divorced single parent Eve and Albert.
The film features tender performances from both Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
The BFI London Film Festival runs from 9th - 20th October.
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