This movie passed 3 of 3 tests (although dubious). It was entered by luminum on 2012-02-18 19:44:31.
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luminum said:
The film is a series of vignettes written and directed by different writers and directors set around Paris, all unrelated, so it mostly deals with conversations between men and women--women alone--about love: romantic, platonic, familial, and impersonal, except for one vignette by Gus Van Sant about two gay youths.
Though there are several female protagonists in each of the vignettes, they either talk to men or males because they're in love, have a child, getting a divorce, having classic comedy of errors misunderstandings, or narrating their experience alone.
In one vignette, Ana, an immigrant caretaker sings to her baby, a boy, before taking the long trip to a wealthy woman's home. They exchange a brief conversation about staying late, which Ana reluctantly accepts to keep her job and provide for her child, though it means spending less time with him. In the end, she sings to the child. It's a great segment on intersectionality of immigrant issues, class disparity, and single motherhood, but the wealthy woman is unnamed.
The film passes the letter of the test because in "Parc Monceau", at the very end, two female characters, Claire, and her friend Sara, have a conversation you can hear in the distance as they walk away to spend time with one another, though the focus is on Vincent and his baby grandson.
However, I feel it also passes the spirit of the test, for several of the vignettes, include the final one, humorously narrated entirely in shaky French by a US postal worker on her first big trip to Paris alone, which is endearing and unreliant on the agency of any male characters.
![[[3]]](/static/pass.png "[There are two or more women in this movie and they talk to each other about something other than a man, although dubious]")
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Though there are several female protagonists in each of the vignettes, they either talk to men or males because they're in love, have a child, getting a divorce, having classic comedy of errors misunderstandings, or narrating their experience alone.
In one vignette, Ana, an immigrant caretaker sings to her baby, a boy, before taking the long trip to a wealthy woman's home. They exchange a brief conversation about staying late, which Ana reluctantly accepts to keep her job and provide for her child, though it means spending less time with him. In the end, she sings to the child. It's a great segment on intersectionality of immigrant issues, class disparity, and single motherhood, but the wealthy woman is unnamed.
The film passes the letter of the test because in "Parc Monceau", at the very end, two female characters, Claire, and her friend Sara, have a conversation you can hear in the distance as they walk away to spend time with one another, though the focus is on Vincent and his baby grandson.
However, I feel it also passes the spirit of the test, for several of the vignettes, include the final one, humorously narrated entirely in shaky French by a US postal worker on her first big trip to Paris alone, which is endearing and unreliant on the agency of any male characters.