Cannes: 15 Women Directors, Tame Dragons and Ryan Gosling's First Time

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Cannes: 15 Women Directors, Tame Dragons and Ryan Gosling's First Time
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The abysmal state of affairs for female directors in Hollywood got a tiny glimmer of hope in Paris this week, as the Cannes Film Festival an**unced its lineup: a group including 15 female filmmakers (though only two are in the main competition this year).

A**ther quirky highlight from the 2014 fest is the world premiere of*Lost River, the directorial debut of Ryan Gosling, who also wrote the bizarre tale of a single mom swept into a dark and twisted underworld (kind of like in Drive). Ben Mendelssohn (The Dark Knight Rises), Saoirse Ronan (The Host) and Gosling's main-squeeze-for-**w Eva Mendes (and his co-star in*The Place Beyond the Pines) also star in the film. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/cannes-lineup-15-women-directors/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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