Gillian Armstrong: Popular, Sensual & Ethical Cinema

Gillian Armstrong is a prolific and versatile film director whose work spans over five decades, three continents and numerous movie forms. Like other directors acclaimed for their accomplishments across a suite of movie genres, Armstrong makes movies with a distinct and recurring set of concerns. These include a focus on biography or life narrative; an interest in adapting popular 'literary' stories into cinematic forms; charismatic and often eccentric female characters; and issues of socia...