Girlfriends

Director: Claudia Weill

1978 / 86min / DCP

A film that gifts female friendship the weight and depth usually reserved for either heterosexual romance or male-bonding bromance, Weill’s Girlfriends features Melanie Mayron as a New York photographer in post-collegiate professional limbo who receives a brutal blow on learning that long-time roommate Anita Skinner is moving out to be married to grating boyfriend Bob Balaban. A warmly funny, understated character study that generates emotional impact with the sparest of means, its modest, intimate approach an outsized influence on generations of up-and-coming female filmmakers.

Claudia Weill will join us for a q&a on Wednesday, August 17 at 7pm.