original title:
il popolo delle donne. Il film
directed by:
cast:
Marina Valcarenghi
screenplay:
Yuri Ancarani, Marina Valcarenghi
cinematography:
Thomas Pilani
editing:
music:
Caterina Barbieri
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2023
film run:
60'
format:
colour
release date:
16/11/2023
festivals & awards:
A law graduate, journalist and political activist in the 1960s and 1970s, and a psychoanalyst operating in prison wards assigned to women who are victims of violence: Marina Valcarenghi is the subject of the latest film by Yuri Ancarani. The voiceover is a monologue in her own voice, as the footage depicts her sitting at a desk covered with papers, a bottle and a wristwatch, in the Legnaia courtyard of the University of Milan, where she herself embarked on her academic career. Her words reprise readings of court testimony as well abstract, theoretical discourses and her own traumas connected to her experience in the field, all of which bring to light society's fears of the dichotomy between men and women.