Filming Desire A Journey Through Womens Cinema (2000)

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras Some such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat both from France have been making films for decades in a conscious effort to provide an alternative to the male filmmaking model others such as Moufida Tlatli Tunisia and Carine Adler England are relative newcomers to directing and their approaches seem more personal and less political The film as a whole manages to cover some important topics in the feminist debate about film how does one construct a female gaze how can one film nude bodies without objectifying the actors of either sex what constitutes a strong female role while also making it clear that womens film comprises as many different approaches to filmmaking as there are female filmmakers