Her 13 features from the 50s and 60s explored new ways of representing women on screen. Now, two new major retrospectives aim to introduce her work to modern audiences
‘It’s so odd,” said the 86-year-old Muriel Box in 1991, the year she died, “why they can’t have the grace to say: ‘We know we have all the good opportunities as men to direct and do everything.’” In women, she said, the film industry “hasn’t any confidence at all … They never say to women: Let us try and see what she’s done.”
Box knew of what she spoke. Fifty-four years since her final film, she remains Britain’s most prolific female director. In the 1950s, she strived and scrimped, surmounted institutional prejudice and ill-health to make her 13 features. Now, they are being seriously re-examined, with major retrospectives at this year’s San Sebastián and Lumière festivals. Audiences are finding Box isn’t just worthy of interest because of her outrider status, but because of her quest to find adventurous new expressions of women’s lives.
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