Variety: Oscar-nominated writer, filmmaker and actress Julie Delpy, who is at the Zurich Film Festival to present her latest film “My Zoe” and participate in the Woman of Impact Symposium, shared her thoughts on the #MeToo movement, equal pay, her career highlights and the prospect of a “Before Midnight” sequel with Guy Lodge at the Variety Lounge presented by Credit Suisse.
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This article includes a lot of interesting ideas. I thought Delpy’s analysis on non-women filmmakers being seen as fragile and how this effects the end product to be very interesting. Since these film makers are being judged harsher than their male counterparts, they can be pushed into making different style movies. That being said, I struggled with her egg freezing advice. While I sympathize with Delpy that it must be hard to get funding for her movies, this advice feels oddly patriarchal and seems to judge a woman's value on her choice to have children. While that may be the right choice for her, it isn’t a choice for everyone. Also, I wonder how Delpy runs auditions and if she runs them differently. In the article she mentions that they were traumatic for her, so I wonder if she has changed the style to make them more conducive for others. Overall, this was a really interesting article and I enjoyed Delpy’s perspective.
Fighting for equal pay and equal opportunity has been a woman's (and really, any non-cis male person's) plight since the beginning. After hearing Julie Delpy's take on her auditioning process and battle to be seen as equal to men, I hope that she has made that process less traumatic for the women that have come after her. Considering Delpy is now an established actress and film director, she has the power to make a difference from a position of authority, which is more likely to be felt throughout the industry. While I feel for many of the things she is saying, I recoil a little at her stance on being a working mother in the film industry, which is for young women to freeze their eggs and be mothers later, after their projects have wrapped. It really just rubs me the wrong way. It sounds too imperative. The conversation of working mothers is a whole other conversation to be had.
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