May el-Toukhy Takes ‘Woman Unknown’ to Venice: “I’ve Used Every Part of Me to Make This Film”
Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy, one of the two female directors competing for the Golden Lion this year, in Venice with a sharp, searing analysis of the women thrown to the wolves in the aftermath of World War II. Women Unknown — Scandinavian in both its aesthetic and precision — was always going to be about class, complicity…