Gracious curves / directed by Kiti Luostarinen.

Format:

Video

Author/Creator:

Luostarinen, Kiti, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging.

Body image in women.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (53 minutes).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1999.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

This multi-festival film is a provocative cinematic journey about women, their bodies and aging. It brings into focus the current worship of youth and reflects on women's willingness to refashion themselves to achieve the perfect body. The filmmaker starts with a rumination on her own body and her love/hate relationship to its middle aged imperfections. In her mother's generation, wrinkles, veins and sagging breasts were accepted as a symbol of a lifetime of childbirth and child rearing. Health and usefulness was what that generation expected of their bodies. Now, with the tools of the plastic surgeon, no deviation from the norm is tolerated. Filmed in Scandinavia, it shows nude women of all ages and sizes enjoying a summer's day by a lake. The naturalness of the setting and their apparent lack of self consciousness frees the viewer to appreciate and accept the variety of womanly shapes.

Notes:

Originally released as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

Berlin Film Festival, 1997

Film de Femmes, Creteil, 1997

Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1998

OCLC:

747797617

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.