Directed by Marleen Gorris
3 Episodes
Director of some of the most provocative and uncompromising films to emerge from the women’s-liberation movement, Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris explores questions of gender, sexuality, and violence—and the links between the three—with startling boldness. Her first three features—A QUESTION OF SILENCE, BROKEN MIRRORS, and THE LAST ISLAND—are landmarks of take-no-prisoners feminist cinema, forming a loose trilogy of thrillers that give potent expression to female rage, solidarity, and defiance.
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1:36:36Episode 1A Question of Silence
Episode 1
Directed by Marleen Gorris • 1982 • Netherlands
Starring Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Henriëtte TolAfter three women—strangers with no premeditated motive—kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, a female psychiatrist (Cox Habbema) is assigned to the case to find out why. Marleen Gorris’...
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1:51:55Episode 2Broken Mirrors
Episode 2
Directed by Marleen Gorris • 1984 • Netherlands
Starring Lineke Rijxman, Henriëtte Tol, Edda BarendsMarleen Gorris’s follow-up to her landmark debut A QUESTION OF SILENCE continues her uncompromising investigation into what it means to exist as a woman in an often-brutal patriarchal world. In a...
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1:41:03Episode 3The Last Island
Episode 3
Directed by Marleen Gorris • 1990 • Netherlands
Starring Paul Freeman, Shelagh McLeod, Patricia HayesAfter they survive a plane crash, five men, two women, and a dog find that they may in fact be the only survivors of a worldwide disaster. Stranded on a deserted island, the question arises: can...