Violence by women made a spectacular debut at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Maïwenn admitted to having assaulted the journalist Edwy Plenel.
Sandra Hüller embodies a completely different type of woman, says Siegfried Forster. Forster: A significant number of films have staged women not only in an emancipatory impulse, but also destructive, violent, cynical, inhuman, ruthless, selfish, macho... dark sides hitherto often reserved for men. The most chilling example comes from the center of absolute horror, the Auschwitz extermination camp.