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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Name: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Director: Pamela B. Green
Released: 2018
Duration: 103 min

Representation Score

4.1/10

Fair

2018

Not Rated

Director

Pamela B. Green

Runtime

103 minutes

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This documentary serves as a powerful act of restorative cinema. It dismantles the myth of the 'male auteur' by documenting Guy-Blaché’s immense professional and economic power. While the film lacks explicit LGBTQ+ or racial diversity, it uses its historical context to critique how systemic exclusion functions. It turns the lens on the institutions that attempted to bury her legacy. Ultimately, the work is a sophisticated critique of historical construction, proving that the cinematic canon has long been shaped by exclusionary power dynamics.

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Category Breakdown

Does Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The documentary focuses on a historical biography. It does not center on queer narratives or non-straight identities.

How does Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché portray gender?

Excellent

The film challenges traditional hierarchies by highlighting Alice Guy-Blaché's professional role and intellectual influence in a male-dominated era.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché?

Fair

The narrative reflects the demographics of the early film industry. It highlights the systemic exclusion and erasure within these historical institutions.

How does Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché represent religion and culture?

Good

The film critiques Western institutional memory. It challenges the authority of established history books that suppressed female achievements.

Does Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no significant evidence regarding the portrayal of physical or neurodivergent disabilities as central narrative elements.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional film history by centering female professional roles.
Effectively critiques how Western institutions maintain exclusionary narratives.
Focuses on reclaiming erased female contributions to cinema.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit representation or character arcs related to LGBTQ+ identities.
Limited focus on racial and ethnic diversity within the historical narrative.
Does not address disability representation as a central theme.

Official Synopsis

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

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