Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Pamela B. Green directs. Peter G. Adams scores. Pamela B. Green cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Released 8 years ago.
• 2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.
• 3Original score by Peter G. Adams. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
• 4Editor Pamela B. Green shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 5Jodie Foster and Richard Abel and Marc Abraham carry the top of the cast.
• 6Marketing tagline: "She saw the future through the camera lens".
• 7IMDB entry: tt3146022 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 8Only 42 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
• 9Classified under 10 themes, including "based on novel or book", "movie business", "woman director", "19th century".

The technical file

Original score

Peter G. Adams

Editing

Pamela B. Green

Sound

Marcello Dubaz

Runtime

103 min · 1h 43m

Status

Released

Original language

EN

IMDB

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) ↗

Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  Official US Trailer

  Trailer · Official
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  NYFF56: Jodie Foster & Pamela B. Green

  Featurette · Official

Production companies

Who made it

• PI

  PIC Agency

  US

• 

  Artemis Rising

  US

Key crew

• EditorPamela B. Green
• Associate ProducerJarik Van Sluijs
• Executive ProducerRobert Redford
• ProducerPamela B. Green
• Executive ProducerHugh Hefner
• Co-ProducerCosima Littlewood
• Co-ProducerGala Minasova
• Executive ProducerGeralyn White Dreyfous
• Executive ProducerJodie Foster
• Executive ProducerJohn Ptak
• Executive ProducerRegina K. Scully
• Executive ProducerJamie Wolf
• Sound DesignerMarcello Dubaz
• Supervising Sound EditorCasey Langfelder
• Associate ProducerAbigail Disney
• Associate ProducerCaroleen Feeney
• Associate ProducerNion McEvoy
• Associate ProducerMichel Merkt
• Associate ProducerDaniela Roth

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• based on novel or book
• movie business
• woman director
• 19th century
• 1910s
• cinema history
• hollywood history
• portrait of a filmmaker
• silent cinema
• hidden history

Release history · US

When it landed

• Theatrical2018-12-07

Also known as

International titles

• La pionera: la historia desconocida de Alice Guy-BlachéES