Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
Pamela B. Green?s ?Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché? is the kind of movie I want to root for. It?s a film that excavates and restores a trailblazing woman director to her rightful place in history. While the documentary?s heart is in the right place, and loaded with many historical goodies for silent movie fans and those interested in championing women directors, the way ?Be Natural? presents its findings feels unorganized?like walking through a busy museum exhibit with too many objects, not all of them especially necessary.
Variety
"A maddeningly blinkered documentary on pioneering female filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché that erroneously insists on the subject?s invisibility."
The Hollywood Reporter
"A scrupulously well-researched documentary about one of early cinema's greatest pioneers and the world's first woman filmmaker...As a teaching and consciousness-raising tool, it will be an indispensable resource".
Los Angeles Times
"Green?s film serves as an incredibly necessary tonic, reestablishing the prominent role of women at the advent of cinema, when anything was possible, and there was no notion that directing was necessarily a ?man?s job.? As Hollywood grapples with its representational issues, it?s vital to restore a history that places women behind the camera".