Invisible for too long, director Joanna Hogg is honored in a retrospective at the Center Pompidou

While the Oscars pretend female filmmakers don’t exist, other institutions celebrate them. In March, the appointment is fixed in Paris, at Pompidou Center with the retrospective Joanna Hogg: Ghost Story.

Joanna Hogg, an important but invisible director

We owe him especially the films Memories I and IIreleased a year ago. Joanna Hogg will be honored in a retrospective From March 16-20. What to highlight the filmography of the one who revealed actors who have become stars like Tilda Swinton (The world of narnia) but also Tom Hiddleston (Loki), In films that explore the interiority of its characters while flirting with strange and genre cinema. The two actors will be present next to the director during some sessions of the retrospective.

On the program, we will have the opportunity to find out or review six feature films, one short it’s a graduation fantasy movie. Authorized Whimthe latter has the distinction of having revealed the young Tilda Swinton almost forty years ago.

Joanna Hogg’s Journey

Formed within the walls of the National School of Cinema and Television in the UK, Joanna Hogg was initially held back by a lack of self-confidence. After twelve years as a director for British television, she launched into cinema in the 2000s.

It was a poem written about his father’s death that triggered his films Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2010) and exposure (2013)which will be entitled to a theatrical release March 29th.

The preview of the Eternal Daughter

Produced by A24his latest feature film, The Eternal Daughter, will be screened as a preview at the Center Pompidou on March 16, pending release in French cinemas March 22nd.

At the peak of her art, Tilda Swinton plays a double role in the gothic atmosphere of a deserted hotel. She plays Julie, a woman who, accompanied by her elderly mother, comes to take a few days off in a remote hotel in the English countryside. Very quickly, Julie is captured by the strange atmosphere of the place. As night falls, circumstances prompt Julie to explore the estate. She is then conquered by the tenacious impression that she a an unspeakable secret haunts these walls.