Battle of the Sexes is a series featuring films directed by women about men and films directed by men about women. Through titles like American Psycho, La Captive, Marnie, and Birth, our speakers will interrogate how films reinforce or distort gender roles. The series is hosted by Gabrielle Marceau from In the Mood Magazine.
“Marnie is Alfred Hitchcock’s darkest and most revealing film, featuring a haunting performance by Tippi Hedren, one of the last of her career.
After a compulsive thief with a troubled past is found out, she’s forced to marry the wealthy employer she tried to rob. Observing her erratic behaviour, he becomes obsessed with “curing” her of her destructive impulses.
A devastating study of control and trauma, Marnie is also a film that tells us more about its director than its subject: Hitchcock’s real-life romantic fixation on Hedren seeps unnervingly into every frame.’
Introduced by Gabrielle Marceau, a writer, critic, and editor-in-chief of In the Mood Magazine.
