Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Illuminating! What starts as a biography turns into a detective thriller.

Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times

Alice Guy-Blaché was a true pioneer who got into the movie business at the very beginning—in 1894, at the age of twenty-one. Two years later, she was made head of production at Gaumont Studios and started directing films. She and her husband moved to the United States, and she founded her own company, Solax, in 1910—they started in Flushing and later moved to a bigger facility in Fort Lee, New Jersey. But by 1919, Guy-Blaché’s career came to an abrupt end, and she and the one thousand films that bore her name were largely forgotten. Pamela B. Green’s energetic film is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation. 

New York Film Festival
FILM DETAILS 
Narrator
  • Jodie Foster
Screenwriter
  • Pamela B. Green
  • Joan Simon
Cinematographer
  • Boubkar Benzabat
Print Info
  • B&W/Color
  • DCP
  • 103 mins
Source
  • Pamela B. Green

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