Femmes d’Aubervilliers
Another Le Cinema Club post - last week I watched Femmes d’Aubervilliers.
In 1977, the year the UN proclaimed the “International Year of the Woman,” this young daughter of working-class parents and feminist took to the streets with a camera and microphone to interview women about their thoughts on abortion, contraception, and domestic work. Shot on black-and-white magnetic tape, as France underwent dramatic social changes, Bories’ film explores topics that continue to affect the lives of women.
My favourite kind of doc, where it's mostly just ordinary people, talking - although the director leaves her mark with how she juxtaposes - a man insisting a woman could never be president followed by an interview with a female mayor, an intentionally provocative question to a man about whether women supported by their spouses are "high-class prostitutes". An interesting snapshot in time - some things change, some things stay the same.