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Marleen Gorris is a Director, Scriptwriter and Continuity Néerlandaise born on 9 december 1948 at Roermond (Pays-bas)
Marleen Gorris est une réalisatrice et scénariste néerlandaise née à Ruremonde le 9 décembre 1948.
Gorris dirige Heaven and Earth, un film sur James Miranda Barry, un chirurgien militaire dans l'armée britannique ; né de sexe féminin, il a choisi de vivre en tant qu'homme pour poursuivre une carrière médicale donc serait en quelque sorte la première femme médecin britannique.
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Marleen Gorris
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Elle est connue pour ses combats féministes et son soutien à la cause des gays et lesbiennes, à laquelle elle fait de nombreux échos dans son œuvre.Gorris dirige Heaven and Earth, un film sur James Miranda Barry, un chirurgien militaire dans l'armée britannique ; né de sexe féminin, il a choisi de vivre en tant qu'homme pour poursuivre une carrière médicale donc serait en quelque sorte la première femme médecin britannique.
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Filmography of Marleen Gorris (6 films)
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Within the Whirlwind (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Marleen Gorris
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Political films
Actors Emily Watson, Pam Ferris, Ian Hart, Ben Miller, Ulrich Tukur, Benjamin Sadler
Rating66%
During Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, literature professor Evgenia Ginzburg is falsely convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to 10 years hard labor in a Soviet concentration camp. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets Dr. Anton Walter (Ulrich Tukur), a Crimean German political prisoner who is a camp doctor in Kolyma. He recommends her for a position as a nurse in the camp infirmary. They fall in love and, slowly, Evgenia begins to come back to life.
Carolina (2003)
, 1h36Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Mika Sue Boorem, Randy Quaid, Jennifer Coolidge
Rating60%
Désireuse de mener une « vie normale », la jeune Carolina (une vingtaine d’années) tente d’échapper à l’emprise de son excentrique famille, notamment à celle de son extravagante grand-mère Millicent…
The Luzhin Defence (2000)
, 1h49Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson, Christopher Thompson, Kelly Hunter
Rating67%
It's the early 1920s and Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin (Turturro), a gifted but tormented chess player, arrives in a Northern Italian city to compete in an international chess competition. Prior to the tournament he meets Natalia Katkov (Watson) and he falls in love with her almost immediately. She in turn finds his manner to be appealing and they begin to see each other in spite of her mother's disapproval.
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
, 1h37Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen, Lena Headey, Alan Cox, Sarah Badel
Rating64%
Clarissa Dalloway sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time in London, a young man is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset (the year is 1923) form of shell-shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In the course of one day, Peter, a passionate old suitor, returns from India, there is a suicide, Clarissa relives a day in her youth (and her reasons for her choice of a life with the reliable Richard Dalloway).
Antonia's Line (1995)
, 1h42Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Political films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dora van der Groen, Victor Löw, Els Dottermans, Jan Decleir, Johan Heldenbergh
Rating73%
Following World War II, the widow Antonia and her daughter Danielle arrive at Antonia's home town where her mother is dying. Antonia turns down an offer of marriage from Farmer Bas, but develops a romance with him anyway. Danielle becomes an artist and expresses interest in raising a child, while rejecting the idea of having a husband. Antonia and Danielle visit the city to find a man to impregnate Danielle, resulting in the birth of Therèse, an unusually intelligent girl. Danielle also develops a lesbian relationship with Therèse's tutor.
A Question of Silence (1982)
, 1h32Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Nelly Frijda, Edda Barends, Henriëtte Tol, Cox Habbema
Rating65%
Housewife Christine M. tries to shoplift some merchandise from a boutique in a shopping mall but is caught by the male shopkeeper. Christine and two other customers, waitress Annie and secretary Anna, beat the man to death, witnessed by a large group of other female shoppers. They are tried with murder and deny the plea of insanity that the male prosecutor and judges assume they should plead. The female criminal psychiatrist assigned to ascertain their level of sanity comes to identify with the women's situations and concludes that they are not insane but have been driven to murder by the strain of living in a patriarchy.
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Antonia's Line (1995)
, 1h42Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Political films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dora van der Groen, Victor Löw, Els Dottermans, Jan Decleir, Johan Heldenbergh
Rating73%
Following World War II, the widow Antonia and her daughter Danielle arrive at Antonia's home town where her mother is dying. Antonia turns down an offer of marriage from Farmer Bas, but develops a romance with him anyway. Danielle becomes an artist and expresses interest in raising a child, while rejecting the idea of having a husband. Antonia and Danielle visit the city to find a man to impregnate Danielle, resulting in the birth of Therèse, an unusually intelligent girl. Danielle also develops a lesbian relationship with Therèse's tutor.
A Question of Silence (1982)
, 1h32Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Nelly Frijda, Edda Barends, Henriëtte Tol, Cox Habbema
Rating65%
Housewife Christine M. tries to shoplift some merchandise from a boutique in a shopping mall but is caught by the male shopkeeper. Christine and two other customers, waitress Annie and secretary Anna, beat the man to death, witnessed by a large group of other female shoppers. They are tried with murder and deny the plea of insanity that the male prosecutor and judges assume they should plead. The female criminal psychiatrist assigned to ascertain their level of sanity comes to identify with the women's situations and concludes that they are not insane but have been driven to murder by the strain of living in a patriarchy.
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A Question of Silence (1982)
, 1h32Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Nelly Frijda, Edda Barends, Henriëtte Tol, Cox Habbema
Roles Continuity
Rating65%
Housewife Christine M. tries to shoplift some merchandise from a boutique in a shopping mall but is caught by the male shopkeeper. Christine and two other customers, waitress Annie and secretary Anna, beat the man to death, witnessed by a large group of other female shoppers. They are tried with murder and deny the plea of insanity that the male prosecutor and judges assume they should plead. The female criminal psychiatrist assigned to ascertain their level of sanity comes to identify with the women's situations and concludes that they are not insane but have been driven to murder by the strain of living in a patriarchy.