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THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN

Yvonne Rainer | 125 min | United States | 1985

Rainer’s account of the break-up of a marriage between a womanizing blowhard Manhattan professor and his artist wife, who exists only as voice-over, responds to contemporary debates over notions such as the male gaze, the housing crisis facing New York artists, and political struggles in Latin America.


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