Maggie Gyllenhaal on Subverting Female Stereotypes and Why She Never Set Out to Break Taboos: ‘I’m Just Trying to Make Space for My Own Experience to Be Expressed’

According to Variety, Maggie Gyllenhaal has been honored at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival with the President's Award. In just two directorial films, she has subverted more than one hundred years of cinematic female stereotypes. 'The Lost Daughter' confronted the darker aspects of motherhood; 'The Bride' gave the Bride of Frankenstein her autonomy. Gyllenhaal explained that she never set out to break taboos—instead, she said, 'I'm just trying to make space for my own experience to be expressed.' It's a reminder that sometimes the most radical cinema is the most personal.

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