Brooke Berman is a first-time film director. She’s also a middle-aged woman, a mom, and a wife with a full writing career under her belt. In this conversation, we explore how she got to the point of directing her film, Ramona at Midlife, and what she learned in the process.
Brooke’s film is not autobiographical, but it’s deeply personal. Her main character navigates reigniting her friendship with two other midlife women writers, repairing her marriage, and taking control again of her story and her writing. The film is not unique in how it puts a middle-aged woman’s struggle front and center, but it is unusual in its avoidance of so many Hollywood tropes: Ramona’s life is not glamorous, her face is not botoxed, and in the course of the film, no one gets their comeuppance. Ramona simply learns to move on and grow.
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