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Directed by Marleen Gorris

Broken Mirrors

1h 51m

Directed by Marleen Gorris • 1984 • Netherlands
Starring Lineke Rijxman, Henriëtte Tol, Edda Barends

Marleen 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 an Amsterdam brothel, two sex workers rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile, one of their customers, a serial killer, kidnaps a housewife. The way these two parallel stories unfold offers harrowing insight into sexual power and gendered violence.

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