2021 FEMALECENTRIC MOVIES
EMILY ON EMILY BRONTE
This year we'll have a number of movies centred on female characters, among them is
EMILY which will see
Emma Mackey playing famous writer
Emily Bronte in
Frances O’Connor's film which will immerse us in Emily Brontë’s hidden world: Emily is a rebel and misfit, a young woman daring to form herself, to embrace her true nature… to hell with the consequences.
We share the innermost relationships that inspired Emily. They are revelations of untold truths – her raw, passionate sisterhood for Charlotte (
Emily Beecham) and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman (
Joe Alwyn) and her care for her maverick brother (
Fionn Whitehead) whom she idolises. Who was this young woman whose heart burned with such love and life, and who wrote literature’s timeless and searing masterpiece, Wuthering Heights?
WOMEN IN THE CASTLE
Post-war Germany: a country compromised – every citizen tarnished by complicity with the Nazi regime, and yet willing the past to disappear as they build a future from its ashes.
But for Marianne – widow of a man murdered for defying the Nazi regime – the past must be spoken for. She cannot simply
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The film is helmed and written by Jane Anderson
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forgive her compatriots for what they’ve done, to her life and to her once-proud nation.
She finds refuge from this rapidly transforming world in her family’s crumbling castle where she once played host to Germany’s liberal elite and there fulfills her promise to find and protect the wives and children of her husband’s brave conspirators.
Rescuing her dearest friend’s widow, Benita, from the Russian army, and Ania, from a refugee camp, Marianne assembles a makeshift family, certain the women’s shared pain will bind them together.
But as Benita begins a clandestine relationship and Ania struggles to conceal her Nazi past, Marianne learns that her clear-cut, highly principled worldview and moral certainty has no place in these new, frighteningly ambiguous and emotionally charged days.
All three women (
Kristin Scott Thomas, Daisy Ridley and
Nina Hoss) must grapple with the realities they now face, and the terrible consequences of decisions they cannot undo.
THE MIRACLE CLUB
Lourdes, a picturesque country town at the base of the magnificent French Pyrenees, and a place of miracles, is a magnet for 6 million visitors each year from across the globe. Ballyfermot, Ireland, 1960: A hilariously hard-knocks community in outer Dublin that marches to its own beat – frenzied, fast and loose – and yet also deeply soulful; rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. It’s a thriving community in a constant uphill battle to live as fully as possible, on very little. And the opportunity to rise above one’s daily struggles is frankly a pipe dream, especially for women.
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Jane Anderson wrote and directed the film
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There’s just one tantalising dream for the women of Ballyfermot to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, and all for free. And with a little benevolent interference from their cheeky and rebellious priest, close friends played by
Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and
Laura Linney, are the ‘lucky’ few to win this ticket of a lifetime at their riotous local raffle night.
Having never even left Dublin the journey provides them the chance to let their hair down, celebrate life and delight in some sweet independence. But it’s not all just a ‘jolly’: the women have a very important role to play when they arrive in Lourdes – to act as
‘pushers’ for the seriously ill and disabled pilgrims, there to bathe in the town’s healing springs. And it’s also a chance to reflect on their own lives, with each of the women in search of their own personal miracles. But when they are joined by a woman recently returned from a decades long exile in the USA, deep wounds from the past are re-opened, and bitter truths exposed. As they confront one another and embrace their past, these women realise that the miracle they have
all been looking for is right in front of them: in the strength of their friendships and unshakeable togetherness.
courage, of music and dance - transcending the assumptions of a little understood condition, and triumphing over the odds to find joy, release and
love. Joining Laura and
Rhys are Monica Dolan, Rory Kinnear and Paul Mayhew-Archer. See the trailer below and tell us what you think.
worldwide, spending 70 weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Sex in the suburbs was never the same again. The movie charts the hilarious, heartbreaking and incredible true story of how this most unusual of recipe books was born, spotlighting the eccentric and interesting characters behind the book. 
story - a friendship which unfolds unexpectedly. A story of humour and emotion, of challenge and courage, of music and dance - transcending the
assumptions of a little understood condition, and triumphing over the odds to find joy, release and love. Joining Laura and
Rhys are Monica Dolan, Rory Kinnear and Paul Mayhew-Archer. 
Tony Evans, the deputy head of a local primary school. Laura stars as Emma Dretzin, a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s.
monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival. 
of a lifetime.
Having never left Dublin, let alone Ireland, the journey provides our heroines the chance to let their hair down, celebrate life and some independence. It's also a chance to reflect on their own lives, 
with each of the women in search of their own personal miracles.
But when they are joined by Chrissie, recently returned from a decades-long exile in the USA, deep wounds from the past are re-opened, and bitter truths exposed.
As
they confront one another and embrace their past, these women realise that the miracle they have all been looking for is right in front of them. Check out the first teaser below and tell us will you watch it this summer?
Emily Bronte in Frances O’Connor's film which will immerse us in Emily Brontë’s hidden world: Emily is a rebel and misfit, a young woman daring to form herself, to embrace her true nature… to hell with the consequences.
We share the innermost relationships that inspired Emily. They are revelations of untold truths – her raw, passionate sisterhood for Charlotte (Emily Beecham) and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman (Joe Alwyn) and her care for her maverick brother (Fionn Whitehead) whom she idolises. Who was this young woman whose heart burned with such love and life, and who wrote literature’s timeless and searing masterpiece, Wuthering Heights? 
Small movies Monday for you today, starting with the first trailer and poster for the movie adaptation of CARRIE PILBY a best selling novel from Caren Lissner in which Bel Powley plays a girl of high intelligence who struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex and leaving her apartment. Beside Powley in the title role, the cast also includes Nathan Lane as her shrink, with William Moseley, Gabriel Byrne and Jason Ritter also in the cast. The movie should be out in US cinemas beginning of April.
The
first poster has also been released for the remake of French
thriller Papillon Noir by Herve Korian now titled BLACK BUTTERFLY.
Antonio Banderas plays Paul, a down on his luck screenwriter who picks
up a drifter (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and offers him a place to stay.
However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to
write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Piper Perabo and Abel Ferrara also star in the movie which is out
sometime later this year.
Starring Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Chloe Sevigny and
out this May it offers a look at how far parents will go to protect
their children.