Jane Campion, only the second woman to ever been nominated for an Oscar for directing, has been encouraged by the efforts she’s seen to get more women in the director’s chair. “All I can say is sin…
Campion — who is in Venice with her latest feature, the Netflix drama “” — cited Chloe Zhao winning the Oscar for directing in April and Julia Ducournau
“I think the girls are doing very well,” Campion said. “I say that in a gallant way,” she continued, referring to statistics that show change is still coming slowly. “The great loss for everyone is there aren’t enough feminine voices.” Campion said that Netflix gave her the biggest budget she’s ever had to direct “The Power of the Dog,” which she decided to adapt into a movie after reading the historical novel by Thomas Savage.
In the film, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Phil Burbank, a cruel ranch owner who can’t stand his brother’s new wife Rose .
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