Women's Pictures

Women's Pictures

2 Episodes

Unfolding in a kaleidoscopic rush of free-associative archival footage, Marie-Elsa Sgualdo’s YOU CAN’T DO EVERYTHING AT ONCE, BUT YOU CAN LEAVE EVERYTHING AT ONCE charts her family’s history through the shared and divergent experiences of her mother and herself from the prewar years to the dawning of feminism. As a document of the female experience it makes for a perfect companion to Agnès Varda’s ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T, a luminous pastel dream musical that traces the journeys of two activists and their changing relationships to each other and their bodies over the course of the women’s movement.

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Women's Pictures

2 Episodes

  • You Can't Do Everything at Once, But You Can Leave Everything at Once
    15:29
    You Can't Do Everything at Once, But You Can Leave Everything at Once
    Episode 1

    You Can't Do Everything at Once, But You Can Leave Everything at Once

    Episode 1

    Directed by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo • 2013 • Switzerland

    With an innovative mix of archival footage, reenactments, and voice-over, director Marie-Elsa Sgualdo tells the story of her mother’s life and how it flows into her own, arriving at an intimate reflection on the origins of the feminist movement.

  • One Sings, the Other Doesn't
    2:01:58
    One Sings, the Other Doesn't
    Episode 2

    One Sings, the Other Doesn't

    Episode 2

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1977 • France
    Starring Valérie Mairesse, Thérèse Liotard, Ali Raffi

    In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pomme lends Suzanne the money for an illegal...

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