Hasta La Motion!

« I’m giving you my word that there’s nothing, there’s no frame in my film, not a single one, that doesn’t come from me as a woman. I’ve never engaged in copycatting, never tried to imitate men, because I know very well that all the efforts of my girlfriends, both older and younger than me, to imitate men’s cinema were just nonsensical, because all this is secondary. But I make a distinction between ladies’ and men’s cinema. There’s no women’s and men’s cinema. There’s ladies’ cinema and there’s men’s cinema. Men, too, can do perfectly well the ladies’ sentimental needlework. But a woman, as one half of the origins of humankind, can tell the world, reveal to the world some amazing things. No man can so intuitively discern some phenomena in human psyche, in nature as a woman can. » Larisa Shepitko, ‘Larisa’ (1980) – Elem Klímov Music: “Krylya” (1966) by Roman Ledenyov For educational purposes only.