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Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

2000·Documentary·1h
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.
Directed by Marie Mandy
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Cast

Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda
Self
Sally Potter
Sally Potter
Self
Carine Adler
Carine Adler
Self
Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat
Self
Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani
Self
Francesca Comencini
Francesca Comencini
Self
Doris Dörrie
Doris Dörrie
Self
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta
Self
Patricia Rozema
Patricia Rozema
Self
Paule Baillargeon
Paule Baillargeon
Self
Léa Pool
Léa Pool
Self
Moufida Tlatli
Moufida Tlatli
Self

Crew

Guillaume Valeix
Guillaume Valeix
Sound Engineer

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Ayeshoo
Ayeshoo
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
In Marie Mandy's humble documentary, we are reminded that film belongs to women as much as to men. Women create. Women are made to create. Create art. Create change. Create life itself.

Here are the directors Mandy chooses to showcase:

• Agnes Varda
• Moufida Tlatli
• Jeanne Labrune
• Deepa Mehta
• Patricia Rozema
• Paule Baillargeon
• Francesca Comencini
• Jane Campion
• Sally Potter
• Léa Pool
• Doris Dörrie
• Liliana Cavani (🤤)
• Safi Faye
• Carine Adler

Added to my on: radical feminism list :)

⁠๑•⁠.̫

**Agnes Varda
**A woman must not be defined by the onlooker, by men's eyes, by men who have oppressed her; by her father, husband, lover, brother who look at her.
She, who's gotten used to it, to existing through that look, her mirror.
The first feminist gesture is to say: "Okay, they're looking at me. But I'm looking at them." The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me but how I see them.

!!

**Paule Baillargeon
**Women haven't had the leisure of real desire. We were told what to desire. We were forced for hundreds and thousands of years, and that's all in us, that heritage.

!!

**Liliana Cavani
**I don't like dialogues that much. I prefer what can be expressed through images. In a relationship, I don't think it's necessary to talk all the time. What's interesting is the moment of expression and how express ourselves with our body.
In Marie Mandy's humble documentary, we are reminded that film belongs to women as much as to men. Women create. Women are made to create. Create art. Create change. Create life itself.

Here are the directors Mandy chooses to showcase:

• Agnes Varda
• Moufida Tlatli
• Jeanne Labrune
• Deepa Mehta
• Patricia Rozema
• Paule Baillargeon
• Francesca Comencini
• Jane Campion
• Sally Potter
• Léa Pool
• Doris Dörrie
• Liliana Cavani (🤤)
• Safi Faye
• Carine Adler

Added to my on: radical feminism list :)

⁠๑•⁠.̫

**Agnes Varda
**A woman must not be defined by the onlooker, by men's eyes, by men who have oppressed her; by her father, husband, lover, brother who look at her.
She, who's gotten used to it, to existing through that look, her mirror.
The first feminist gesture is to say: "Okay, they're looking at me. But I'm looking at them." The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me but how I see them.

!!

**Paule Baillargeon
**Women haven't had the leisure of real desire. We were told what to desire. We were forced for hundreds and thousands of years, and that's all in us, that heritage.

!!

**Liliana Cavani
**I don't like dialogues that much. I prefer what can be expressed through images. In a relationship, I don't think it's necessary to talk all the time. What's interesting is the moment of expression and how express ourselves with our body.
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