Women Directors Shine At TIFF

TORONTO (Reuters) - Madonna may have stolen most of the news, but there were plenty of films made by women who earn a lot of buzz in the Film Festival this year's Toronto International, which ends on Sunday .

Since the invention is a vibrator as a result of a massacre at school, women brought comedy and complexity to serve as a trigger, if Hollywood's Oscar season.

Madonna's "WE" Sarah Polley "Take this waltz," most of the films drew on familiar themes of relationships, marriage and children, but it is unfair to mark them as "Chick Flicks" said the actor and Canadian director Polley.

"If you make a film about a woman, either a woman or a point of view of women, then (marking), a" chick flick "," she said. "But there is no corresponding term in sideline to talk about a movie that stars a man."

"I think if it comes from man's point of view, and directs, the film may just be," said Polley.

His new role, "Take this waltz" was one of the three women, was in charge of films for the gala screening of high level during the festival. The film stars Michelle Williams as a young married woman in a relationship tempted by a beautiful neighbor.

Madonna is "we" about the 1930 wedding of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson American divorcee, she also Gala treatment, although the headlines speak of the pop star outweighed the interest you pay to your movie .

Tanya Wexler and crowd-pleasing comedy vibrator Victorian "Hysteria", best film completed the peak in women in Toronto.

Wexler, head back to the director after several years to concentrate on his family, said that the goal of "Hysteria" was to make a romantic comedy that women want to see, but it also had a message.

"This film is a look at the idea of ​​having the opportunity to choose," said Wexler. "It 'really be responsible for yourself, your life and your body."

She added that despite all the progress women since the Victorian era, inequality and lack of choice are still problems for many women in all regions of the world.

"It 's the difference between the child says:" It is not right "if you do not have seven each Jelly Beans," said Wexler. "And the opportunity to choose whether you want Jelly Beans, or chocolate chips."

Sales in the face of Andrea Arnold's bare-bones adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" and Malgoska Szumowska the "Elles", each received a distribution agreement. Lynn comedy "Sister Sister," which mulls Shelton family, friendship and sex, was broken IFC Films for distribution in America and is also tied to the European and Australian addresses.

"I heard a couple of people say," It's a very intelligent girl movie, "said Shelton." I really do not believe it. There were so many men say they come to worship. "

Oscar bait?

Then turn sincere Shelton bed is called the success of this year, low-budget comedy is probably a stretch to claim the prize.

Most potential candidates for the 2011 festival, which might appear in the Hollywood circuit prices include Agnieszka Holland on the Holocaust drama "in the dark" and Lynne Ramsay have a concern of the school slaughter "We must talk about Kevin" .

Neither film has a broad appeal Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker," the drama that went to war in 2009, the first woman to win an Oscar for best director, but both could be winners in other categories.

Performance Tilda Swinton as the mother tortured "We must talk about Kevin" could net a gesture actress Oscar, while the Netherlands' in the dark "has been promoted as Poland's official entry for Best Foreign Language Film.

Holland, who made more than a dozen functions, said it is difficult for women aspirants price, as they often are classified by the system of study in romantic comedies.

"And 'certainly easier to convince manufacturers to give money to such material," he said. "If a woman becomes something that is sharper, not self-evident that he considered the candidate directly."

For Polley, the number of women-oriented films in the festival this year is a sign that this situation might change. She said to have had the opportunity to work as an actress with the heads of women was finally helped him move behind the camera, and hopes to inspire others.

"I think it's a huge thing to have role models," said "I worked with Kathryn Bigelow and Isabel Coixet, and I remember going, 'oh, it's normal for women in direct cinema."

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