From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story is about a feminist struggle, albeit atypical, fought on and off the screen. This film sets out to retrace her remarkable journey within the Hollywood industry.
Direction
Juza and Sadat let Foster's own words do the heavy lifting.
Editing
Brutal juxtapositions of childhood sexualization and adult control.
Production
Rare European interviews finally subtitled for English audiences.
Director
Camille Juza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This French production accesses material largely ignored by American retrospectives, including footage from her Cannes jury presidency that U.S. outlets largely buried.
The directors originally sought Foster's participation; she declined. The resulting absence becomes the film's accidental thesis—her silence as final authorship.
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