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    Broken Mirrors

    Marleen Gorris 1984 Holland Fiction color 105min Dutch 35mm
    Released in Holland as Gebroken Spiegels, Broken Mirrors is set for the most part in an Amsterdam brothel. Lineke Ripman and Henriette Tol play two prostitutes who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Their story is counter-pointed by a subplot involving a housewife played by Edda Barends, who is kidnapped by one of the brothel's customers; as Barends starves to death, her captor takes photographs of her last days on earth. Her demise is as much ”liberation" as Ripman and Tol's refusal to continue plying their trade.

    Director

    Marleen Gorris

    One of the Netherlands's best-known filmmakers and an important, often provocative voice in world cinema, writer and director Marleen Gorris is renowned- and, in some circles, reviled- for making unapologetically feminist films that assert the rights of women as they question the patriarchy that often represses them. Gorris earned particular international recognition for Antonia's Line, a portrait of several generations of Dutch women that won a 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Born in Holland's Limburg region in 1948, Gorris studied drama at home and abroad. She began working as a filmmaker with almost no previous experience in the cinema and made an auspicious writing and directorial debut in 1982 with De Stilte Rond (A Question of Silence).

    Marleen Gorris

    2003 Caroline

    2000 The Luzhin Defence

    1997 Mrs. Dalloway

    1995 Antonia's Line

    1990 The Last Lsland

    1984 Broken Mirrors

    1982 A Question of Silence

    Producer: Matthijs Van Heijningen

    Director: Marleen Gorris

    Screenplay: Marleen Gorris

    Cinematographer: Frans Bromet

    Editor: Hans Van Dongen

    Sound: Georges Bossaers

    Music: Lodewijk de Boer

    Casts: Edda Barends, Eddy Brugman, Lineke Rijxman, Coby Stunnenberg, Henriette Tol

    Language: Dutch

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