Alternative Film Guide

"If people criticize Scottish cinema today, it’s for too much gritty realism. If you look at it from another perspective, how many of the characters we see are self-destructive in some way, people who unravel, are emotionally inarticulate, can’t express themselves? It’s more to do with the fact that the vast majority of directors are men. It’s not really acceptable that any art form is so completely made by one gender. We have one or two good screenwriters who are women but not nearly enough compared to some other countries, to France or Germany or Sweden or Iran."

Filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins, speaking on "The Future of Scottish Film" at the Edinburgh Lecture series, and ignoring the fact that Hollywood was thoroughly dominated by men during the studio era — and its movies were hardly what one would call a representation of "gritty realism."

Quote: The Scotsman

 

 

 

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