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9 Milestones in the Evolution of Anne Hathaway

In Lone Scherfig’s adaptation of the best-selling novel One Day , Anne Hathaway stars as a British waitress/writer whose romantic and professional pursuits — as well as her complicated relationship with Jim Sturgess’s wealthy womanizer — are chronicled across two decades. So, how did Hathaway transform herself from a Disney princess to a sardonic working class girl from New England?

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Where Are All the Women Directors in This Year’s Cannes Competition?

Remember 2009? That commercial and critical breakthrough year for women directors including Lone Scherfig, Anne Fletcher, Nora Ephron, Jane Campion and Nancy Meyers, culminating in Kathryn Bigelow’s historic Academy Award victory? Even the 2009 Cannes Film Festival had a record-tying three women filmmakers — Campion, Isabel Coixet and Andrea Arnold — in its prestigious competition lineup. Good times. They feel like they’re forever ago, though, particularly considering this year’s Cannes competition , where there’s not a woman to be found. A browse through recent history suggests maybe we shouldn’t be surprised.

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Where Are All the Women Directors in This Year’s Cannes Competition?