Age: 66
female
Susanne Bier (Danish: [suˈsænə ˈpiɐ̯ˀ]; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. Bier is the first female director to collectively receive an Academy Award (Foreign Film), a Golden Globe Award, a European Film Award (for In a Better World) and a Primetime Emmy Award (for directing The Night Manager). Bier debuted her feature film with Freud's Leaving Home (1991). She directed a string of films, including Open Hearts (2002), Brothers (2004), After the Wedding(2006), and In a Better World (2010), the later of which earned the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. She directed the English-language films Things We Lost in the Fire (2007), Love Is All You Need (2012), Serena (2014), and Bird Box(2018). She directed the BBC One / AMC miniseries The Night Manager (2016) on television, earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. She also directed the HBO psychological miniseries The Undoing (2020), the Showtime historical anthology series The First Lady (2022), and the Netflix mystery series, The Perfect Couple (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Susanne Bier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The film follows June Cannon, a 40-year-old devoted mother and wife who has spent 17 years losing herself in the needs of others. After her husband, Camp, misses another dinner and her teenage daughter calls her "simple," June hits a breaking point. Inspired by a podcast, she demands a divorce to find herself again. However, the announcement acts as a wake-up call for Camp, who suddenly transforms back into the attentive husband she missed, blurring the lines between their reality and a performance for their kids. As June builds a new life - getting a job and reconnecting with an old flame - she must decide if her happiness lies in the "wild and free" future she imagined or the "simple" life she almost left behind.
