María Luisa Bemberg — Director (7)

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Woman's World (1972)
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other title: El mundo de la mujer
Centered on a trade fair of products for women, the work's sarcastic and biting perspective falls on both the men who build that "world" (workers and businessmen) and the women who support them. Through techniques of distancing, mostly of image from sound, the artist developed a poignant reflection on the social debasement of and discrimination against women carried out by products that supposedly exalt and distinguish them.

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Miss Mary (1986)
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other title: Die Leidenschaften der Miss Mary / 瑪莉亞的情緣 …
A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power.

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I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993)
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other title: De eso no se habla / 我不想说这个 …
In an Argentine village in the 1930s, the willful Leonor discovers that her beloved daughter, Charlotte, has dwarfism. Attempting to let her have as normal a childhood as possible, Leonor never discusses Charlotte's lack of stature, nor lets anyone else in the village ever mention it. As Charlotte grows up into a smart and self-possessed young woman, local eccentric Ludovico, who collects miniatures, becomes smitten with her.

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Juguetes (1978)
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This short film, filmed at the Rural Exhibition, is a testimony that, based on 70 interviews with girls and boys of 9 and 10 years, investigates the behavior patterns imposed by conventional education and the results obtained. The boys and girls are educated in specific ways, with very different life goals, and the toys reflect that discrimination: kitchens, dolls, dryers, cosmetics equipment, the whole domestic world for the girls. Creative games, those that awaken the imagination (trains, cars, games to assemble, men in space), are intended for men

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Nobody's Wife (1982)
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★ 8.1 7 ratings
other title: 无丈妻身 / Señora de nadie …
It is the story of Eleanor, a good housewife who lives with her husband, Fernando, and their two children. Deeply loves her husband and does not question the reciprocity of love and fidelity. One day, circumstantially, discovers her husband is cheating. Leonor emotionally feels betrayed and realizes that his world, based on a lie, has collapsed like a house of cards. With more fear than conviction, leaving the house, leaving little signs with instructions for their march and trust their children to the care of her husband.