Nobody's Wife (Bemberg, 1982): Cine Lumiere, 4pm
This 4K UK premiere also screens at Cine Lumiere on September 7th and 11th.
Cinema Restored introduction:
Leonor is an upper-middle-class, committed housewife whose
comfortable life falls apart when she learns of her husband’s
infidelity. With more fear than conviction, she sets out on a voyage of
self-discovery. It is an act born of integrity, a refusal to live a lie,
but as her encounters with family and economic institutions reinforce
her social non-existence, it becomes a gesture of active resistance. Made
under the military regime, the story of Leonor’s move from a family
home and a life centred on pleasing others to a desire to create a life
outside “the system” was dangerously challenging to the symbolic order
in place. María Luisa Bemberg struggled for five years to get her script approved by
censors, who saw her criticism extending from family to state, and
Leonor as an emblem of rupture.
Here (and above) is an extract.
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