How To Train Your Dragon

[ar]

How to Train Your Dragon has two supporting female characters: Astrid, the love interest, and Ruffnut, one of the comic relief characters. Despite the fact that they are both in dragon fighting classes together, I can't recall a single instance in which they ever speak to each other. Astrid speaks almost solely to the hero, Hiccup, and Ruffnut to her male twin brother, Tuffnut. The film is very much a horse-and-his-boy story, substituting "dragon" for "horse;" what dialogue doesn't involve Hiccup in some way isn't very substantial, no matter who's saying it.

That said, I personally found the film enjoyable despite the fact that it fails the Bechdel Test at rule 2, and I hold out hope that if it does well enough to garner sequels, future movies might be Bechdel passes.

Caramel

[glinda]

Caramel is a lovely little Lebanese film that passes with flying colours. (As one would hope given that the five central characters are female as are quite a few of the supporting characters but that's no guarantee) It's a very female-focused film, there are male speaking characters that we see quite a lot of and even have important roles in the plot, but while they are important in the girls lives they are peripheral, the important relationships are their friendships and familial relationships with other women.