Reel 58a: This Woman's Work, Pt.1

Films featuring women as the central character often have depressingly similar threads moving through them, as though women in general were monolithic beings. This time around, we continue our trip Around the World in Twenty Films with a look at two films centered on women who are affected by their jobs, but who aren't defined by them. In Part One we have When A Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), directed by Mikio Naruse. It's a Japanese film that takes a glance askance at the Geisha life.

In Part 2, we'll move to Spain, to look in on a few Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown.

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