Venice Jury President Maggie Gyllenhaal Says Films Are ‘Fundamentally, Unavoidably Political’ and Questions Lack of Female Directors in Competition: ‘There’s a Systemic Problem’

It didn’t instrumentality agelong for authorities to instrumentality the spotlight astatine this year’s Venice Film Festival jury property conference. Amid the wars raging successful Gaza and Ukraine, arsenic good arsenic the unrest successful the United States, assemblage president Maggie Gyllenhaal was asked whether cinema should beryllium political. “OK,” Gyllenhaal said with a laugh. “May arsenic good get […]