Gracious curves [electronic resource] / directed by Kiti Luostarinen.
1999
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Title
Gracious curves [electronic resource] / directed by Kiti Luostarinen.
Author
Luostarinen, Kiti, 1951-
Publication Details
New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1999.
Language
English
Language Note
This edition in English.
Description
1 online resource (53 min.).
Summary
This multi-festival film is a provocative cinematic journey about women, their bodies and aging. It brings into focus the current worship of youth and reflects on women's willingness to refashion themselves to achieve the perfect body. The filmmaker starts with a rumination on her own body and her love/hate relationship to its middle aged imperfections. In her mother's generation, wrinkles, veins and sagging breasts were accepted as a symbol of a lifetime of childbirth and child rearing. Health and usefulness was what that generation expected of their bodies. Now, with the tools of the plastic surgeon, no deviation from the norm is tolerated. Filmed in Scandinavia, it shows nude women of all ages and sizes enjoying a summer's day by a lake. The naturalness of the setting and their apparent lack of self consciousness frees the viewer to appreciate and accept the variety of womanly shapes.
Note
Originally released as DVD.
Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
Audience
For College; Adult audiences.
Awards
Berlin Film Festival, 1997
Film de Femmes, Creteil, 1997
Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1998
Film de Femmes, Creteil, 1997
Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1998
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