Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema — Season 1, Episode 7: Bodies, Sex

Episode synopsis

"Bodies". Bodies in cinema can be enticing, athletic, or brutalized. Jane Fonda narrates this chapter about how some of the great directors -- including Agnès Varda, Andrea Arnold, Marva Nabili, Pirjo Honkasalo, Márta Mészáros, and Wanda Jakubowska -- have filmed bodies. "Sex". From bodies to sex -- one of the most controversial aspects of film. In this chapter Diane Kurys, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Jamie Babbit, Safi Faye, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Alison de Vere, Carine Adler, Donna Deitch, Miranda July, Lucía Puenzo, Maren Ade, Chantal Akerman, and others show a variety of ways of showing sex on screen.

About Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world's greatest filmmakers -- all of them women.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Openings, Tone
• E2Believability, Introducing Character, Meet Cute
• E3Conversation, Framing, Tracking
• E4Staging, Journey, Discovery
• E5Adult/Child, Economy, Editing
• E6POV, Close-up, Dream
• E8Home, Religion, Work
• E9Politics, Gear Change, Comedy
• E10Melodrama, Sci-Fi, Horror & Hell
• E11Tension, Stasis, Leave Out
• E12Reveal, Memory, Time
• E13Life Inside, The Meaning of Life, Love