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?
