52 Films by Women Vol 3. 44. KEEP THE CHANGE (Director: Rachel Israel)
Does every woman who turns to film directing expect a career behind the camera? It is not a question that we would ask of a man. Yet I don’t see the female equivalent of Steven Soderbergh releasing two movies in a calendar year, helming an entire long form TV series and then returning to the big screen from which he had retired to knock out two movies ( Logan Lucky and Unsane ) in less than twelve months. Perhaps directing a film is a one-off endeavour: you do it and then, you know, have a life. But most of us love watching movies; we wouldn’t want to watch just one. So why would we want to make just one? Oh, yeah – the meetings; going round collecting production partners and pitching, like, a gazillion times. So maybe Rachel Israel, the writer (using the term loosely) and director of the New York ‘autistic romance’ movie, Keep The Change will only make one movie in her life. Not because she lacks ideas or talent. However, they judge her on her one movie. It played at Tribeca...