Wellywood Woman

To stay focused when I'm writing intensively, I go to the movies in the afternoons. It's a kind of meditation that includes the walk down the hill to the cinema and back up again afterwards. And a few weeks ago, I saw three women-directed movies in three days: Rama Burshtein's Fill The Void , Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's Inch'Allah and Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said . Maybe things have changed, I thought to myself, ever optimistic. But I also noticed that men wrote and directed Catching Fire , from a novel by a woman, about a young woman and produced by a woman . And then I read Vocativ's  analysis of 2013's 50 top-grossing US releases . This shows that almost half were Bechdel Test-passing films and that they did better at the US box office than those that weren't. BUT except for Frozen , which Jennifer Lee co-directed (and wrote) men directed all 50. And then at the weekend, all three of the new releases reviewed in our local paper (with enthusiasm...