Argentinian Film Season presents; Senore De Nadie (Nobody’s Wife) (1982), Friday November 1st @ 7:30pm
María Luisa Bemberg was one of the most important woman film directors to emerge not just from Argentina but from Latin America as a whole.
In Señora de nadie, as in all her films, Bemberg expressed her fascination for women who do not follow the model laid out for them. Luisina Brando, already well-known for her work with other prominent Argentinian directors such as Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Adolfo Aristarain, Fernando Ayala and Juan José Jusid, plays an upper middle-class woman, Leonor, whose comfortable life falls apart when she learns of her husband’s infidelity. She sets out on a voyage of self-discovery, determined to regain control of her life. The ‘subversive’ message of the film was that the heterosexual relationship had no chance of succeeding in the Argentina of the early 1980s unless one of the parties, the woman, resigned her right to respect – and therefore, self-respect. Leonor is not prepared to play this game. The sexual liberalism of Señora de nadie – shot during the Falklands War of 1982 – was dangerously challenging to the symbolic order on which the dictatorship was based (even though the military regime does not appear in the film at all).
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Advance tickets are £8.50 (£6.50 concessions). If you would prefer to pay on the door, the price will be £10 (£7 concessions). Click below to purchase your advance tickets from Billetto. |