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Sidney Lumet's "the group"(from Mary McCarthy) was,in its own special way,some kind of woman's lib manifesto.Here the group is a two-person team but we see them live during a pretty long time,from 1962 to the mid-seventies.It's interesting to notice that abortion was legal in France only in 1975,thanks to minister Simone Veil.

Agnès Varda's last feature film was "les creatures" a work for highbrows."L'une chante,l'autre pas" is a return to an accessible ,more palatable style.All things woman's lib indeed.Of the two characters ,Suzanne,played by beautiful Thérèse Liotard,is by far the most endearing:her path ran into difficulties,even tragedies:her lover's suicide,her parents' despise who treated her like a dog,her affair with a married man...Pomme is a singer who wants to be free,but she acts like a bubblehead girl:marrying an Iranian,were he the most liberal of them all, is not perhaps the right move..

A lot of this stuff has not worn well:the second part recalls hippies communities,and chic ones at that.The epilogue might be a nod to "le bonheur" her 1964 movie,which was nevertheless disputable in several respects.

Agnès Varda regained the audience's favor in the eighties with "sans toit ni loi" and her superb love movie for her husband Jacques Demy "Jacquot de Nantes".
　通过两位女性1960年代到1970年代的生活，Varda构筑了一部女性主义的历史。故事描述了两位迥异的妇女15年的关系。她们都体会到了西蒙娜·波伏娃的那句名言：“女人并非生来就是女人，她们是后来变成女人的。”
　　Pauline城市中的中产阶级女孩。与其家庭的传统保守大相径庭，她17岁时离家立志要做个歌手。Suzanne年纪稍大些，是个农村姑娘，她的情人自杀了。她独自带着两个私生子，第三个也快要出生了。尽管两个女性没有多少共同之处，她们却仍然相处融洽。
　　后来她们被迫分开了。Suzanne去了法国南部，建立了一个家庭计划中心。Pauline则组织了一个女性的吟游乐队，以她们的歌曲促使人们觉醒。多年以后，Pauline和Suzanne在一个争取堕胎权利的集会上又相遇了。她们重新回到从前。

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