In “Antonia’s Line,” which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996, she tells the story of a mother and daughter who find an all-female, matriarchal community and spend their lives independently, without ever marrying. Although some have accused Gorris’ films of being unsubtle and lacking depth, her work continues to be popular and focus on the stories of women, as in 1997’s “Mrs. Dalloway” and “Within the Whirlwind.”