Prairie Miller

A similar disturbing question as to why there are no women directors who have ever received an Oscar, is why there were no female artists through past history, period.

Catherine (Gretchen Mol), it turns out, is a party hard socialite divorced from a CIA company man, and who is visited under cover of night for sexual encounters, by none other than JFK.

Directed by young Asian American filmmaker Gene Rhee, The Trouble With Romance is scripted by no less than three writers, including Rhee, Mike Su, and one woman, Sharri Hefner.

Another hot topic Perry skims all too briefly, is ghetto guilt, and the emerging class warfare among African Americans as the black bourgeois population continues to grow.

Because it's so difficult to tell stories about America with so many disparate cultures and perspectives in seeming barely controlled chaos, what does play out in movies is more often than not far too hermetic, or not feeling genuine at all.