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Sally Potter
Director 76 years old

Sally Potter

London

Charlotte Sally Potter OBE (born 19 September 1949) is an English film director and screenwriter. She is known for directing Orlando (1992), which won the audience prize for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. She also directed The Tango Lesson (1997), The Man Who Cried... Read full bio →

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8 titles
The Party

The Party

Sally Potter 2017 1h 11m 7.5

Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.

Ginger & Rosa

Ginger & Rosa

Sally Potter 2012 1h 30m 5.3

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.

Rage

Rage

Sally Potter 2009 1h 38m 8.0

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.

Yes

Yes

Sally Potter 2004 1h 40m

In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working as a chef in a London restaurant. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship.

The Man Who Cried

The Man Who Cried

Sally Potter 2000 1h 36m 7.0

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

The Tango Lesson

The Tango Lesson

Sally Potter 1997 1h 40m

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other.

Orlando

Orlando

Sally Potter 1992 1h 34m 7.0

Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that...

The Gold Diggers

The Gold Diggers

Sally Potter 1983 1h 29m

An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew.

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