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.
“Based on the novel by Brett Easton Ellis, Mary Harron’s American Psycho is a searing, funny, and stylish portrait of the men at the top of the financial food chain. The film follows Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street investment banker with fastidious grooming, a tastefully severe apartment, and unstoppable murderous impulses.
While Harron’s sleek and campy thriller is taking on the yuppies of the 1980s, her film remains painfully relevant in an era of personal optimization, unchecked wealth hoarding, and extreme misogyny fuelled by online discourse.”
Introduced by Quinn Henderson, a writer with work in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and In the Mood.
