![]() ![]() Gyllenhaal seems to have a fondness for films that are hard to sit with. “The film is truthful and hard to sit with, but that’s the intention.” “I loved the feeling when it showed at Sundance, where people went in expecting one thing and the rug was pulled out from under them,” says Gyllenhaal, laughing. “It’s not impossible, and it certainly happens,” she says, “but I think just because something is written by a woman, or directed by a woman, that doesn’t necessarily make it feminine – because the context that we’re in is fundamentally masculine.”įar from being your usual story of an inspirational teacher, the film is a dark exercise in obsession, a gripping allegory about what happens when an artistic mind is starved of stimulus. The 41-year-old, Oscar-nominated for Crazy Heart (2009) and so mesmerising in BBC Two’s thriller The Honourable Woman (2014), is explaining the difficulties women encounter in clearly expressing something feminine in art. “We live in a masculine world,” she says, “and in America – especially very recently – as much as we would like to believe otherwise, it’s a misogynistic world.” One critic notoriously said that she possessed a “Kewpie-doll silliness”, but clearly it’s a flaw in our culture that we expect serious thoughts to be couched in sonorous tones. ![]() ![]() She has a high-pitched, cartoonish voice, which she uses to express deep things. Talking to Maggie Gyllenhaal can be a little disorienting.
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