Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Agnès Varda

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 36%

Sally Potter

Self

Age : 75 | Popularity : 35%

Carine Adler

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Catherine Breillat

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 17%

Jeanne Labrune

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 14%

Liliana Cavani

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 30%

Francesca Comencini

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Doris Dörrie

Self

Age : 69 | Popularity : 21%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Marie Mandy
Camera	Director of Photography	Dominique Smersu Virginie Saint-Martin
Editing	Editor	Dominique Lefever
Sound	Sound Editor	Hélène Lamy-au-Rousseau
	Sound Engineer	Guillaume Valeix
	Original Music Composer	Hélène Blazy
Department	Role	Name

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