Sex, power, and rebellion are at the heart of the feminist cinema of Nelly Kaplan, the unsung iconoclast who passed away in November 2020. Born in Argentina to a Russian Jewish family, Kaplan relocated to Paris at age seventeen, where she became an assistant to legendary director Abel Gance before directing her first (and still best-known) feature, the caustic antipatriarchal revenge comedy A VERY CURIOUS GIRL. Transgressive, satirical, and surreal, Kaplan’s films are defined by their proactive female protagonists—complex, empowered women who, in Kaplan’s world, are always in charge.
Movie | Polly West est de retour | Salomé von Jung | 1993-04-17 |
Series | Le Regard dans le miroir | Laura | 1985-10-09 |
Movie | Charles and Lucie | Nostradama | 1979-09-05 |
Movie | One Must Live Dangerously | 1975-09-03 | |
Movie | Papa, the Lil' Boats | Lady with her Saint-Bernard | 1971-04-22 |
Series | Samedi soir | self | 1971-01-09 |
Movie | La prima donna | La Pasta | 1964-01-01 |
Movie | Tower of Lust | Alice | 1955-03-18 |