Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

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Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort to provide an alternative to the male filmmaking model; others, such as Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia) and Carine Adler (England), are relative newcomers to directing, and their approaches seem more personal and less political. The film as a whole manages to cover some important topics in the feminist debate about film -- how does one construct a female gaze, how can one film nude bodies without objectifying the actors (of either sex), what constitutes a strong female role -- while also making it clear that “women’s film” comprises as many different approaches to filmmaking as there are female filmmakers.

Original Title

Filmer le désir - Voyage à travers le cinéma de femmes

Release Date

2000-07-09

Year

2000

Duration

1h 0m

Status

Released

Score

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Cast

Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

Sally Potter

Sally Potter

Carine Adler

Carine Adler

Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat

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Jeanne Labrune

Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani

Francesca Comencini

Francesca Comencini

Doris Dörrie

Doris Dörrie

Deepa Mehta

Deepa Mehta

Patricia Rozema

Patricia Rozema