“Money, until the festival approached its end, wasn’t doing much flowing toward films helmed by women directors. Films were being snapped up, but it was only in the second weekend that major deals were done for women-helmed scripted fare like Leave No Trace and The Tale. This may have been a female-driven Sundance, but the narrative that started a few days in and built to an apparently firm verdict by the end was that this year’s festival was a disappointment, a down cycle, devoid of any obvious breakouts. It’s hard not to see these two things as related, especially with unnamed but apparently powerful distributors tellingly grumbling to Variety, ‘Who are these movies for?'”
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