Five years ago, while she watched and rewatched 1970s and â80s crime genre classics, certain scenes lingered with filmmaker Julia Hart: the moment the study doors close on Diane Keatonâs Kay in âThe Godfather,â shutting her out of her husbandâs inner circle; how Tuesday Weldâs Jessie is abruptly shuffled into a car in the dead of night and sent away from the action, an infant in her arms, in âThief.â
Female characters in movies like these often exist in service to a male protagonistâs story â when they arenât pushed out of the narrative completely. (Or rendered mostly silent, as in Martin Scorseseâs more recent âThe Irishman.â) Devouring these films with her husband, co-writer and producer Jordan Horowitz, shortly after the birth of their first child, Hart wondered about the women left to the margins of the stories on-screen.
In female-led I m Your Woman, Julia Hart flips the 70s crime genre on its head | Arts & Entertainment
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How Amazon s I m Your Woman flips 70s crime thrillers
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I’m Your Woman, directed by Julia Hart and written by Hart and Jordan Horowitz, is the story of a woman named Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) who is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners. She receives help from her husband’s old friends but it’s only a matter of time that they run out of places to hide. It’s an expertly staged movie with unpredictable plot twists and character revelations that are coated with a deep sense of empathy. And despite the slow-burn pacing, it manages to engage you with great cinematography, crisp editing, brilliant costume and production design, and a stellar performance from Rachel Brosnahan.