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FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO...

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | United States | 1974

Rainer’s landmark second feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger, with Rainer needling at questions raised by contemporary feminism about the relationship between romantic clichés and sexual repression. Babette Mangolte’s fluid black-and-white images only heighten the doubt-ridden, highly dislocating drama.


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