A Entrevista

Helena Solberg's first film experience is only mildly interesting for the time in which was made and by today's standard it's fun to make comparisons of what upper middle-class women wanted from life, men or sexual experiences back in the 1960's and what changed or not from the on. Other than such analysis is a quite boring work with many pretentious presented by the female interviewed of whom we don't see their faces - except for one towards the end - and instead of that we have the typical beautiful femmes of the 1960's. By boring I mean the opinions reflected by those "characters" (can't even tell they're real because as said we don't see them so who's to say they're not actresses reciting typical views of the feminine world of that time, and somewhat even of today?).

Through its short course, we have opinions about marriage as all of them really expect it to be the major important change in their lives, if you didn't marry you'd be unhappy for life and never fulfilled; views on sex and here's where the division gets interesting since one half firmly believes that sex must come after marriage while the other half thinks that it can happen before as long as they have some intimate connection with their partner (males at the time); and I'd liked seeing some form of liberated opinion because most people associate it with low-classes or the generation that evolved in the 1970's onwards so it breaks the usual pattern of "innocent generation" If they wanted to experiment it, if they had the chance they could decide in going forward.

However, most of the film is just basic routines of afortunate people who could do whatever they wanted to do and yet they find that life has a designed path that you shouldn't break it. Had this movie show about the realities outside of that realm, then we'd have different scenarios specially about people who lived outside of such wealthy comfort. Many women formed careers instead of forming a family or a household; others lived with their parents to take of care of them, so I tend to hate when people put aspects of life into a certain box, a certain path to be followed - it's all so far behind that with today's liberties and access to information now men, women and other genres can happiness and conquer many achievements without following a specific set of golden rules. With applies to a group may not apply to another group and that's life.

And it gets strangely critical when the interviews abruptly stop and we are informed about the military take over in 1964 and we have a brief sucession of images of the period with soldiers and military everywhere, the leader of congress at the time (Ranieri Mazzilli), and then we get to one final interview. Well, considering that the new administration was only in its second year somehow the director knew that in its male oriented world of politics and military in command, some obvious changes towards women would become at the center stage with a government focused on moral values and good manners. Was it really like that? For those young society women it was pretty much like that when women had to marry, couldn't sexualize themselves neither use of cursing. Yet the following decade slightly changed and challenged such views and more and more women became liberated in questions of sexuality, opinions, work, family and many other issues.

The European style of filmmaking with fast cuts showing the women of the 1960's - and some of the men they admire on the beach - are a fundamental tool to understand and view the decade, the fashion, the designs and everything, and were somewhat more fascinating than seeing some movies of the period. For what it brings to the conversation I wasn't much interested even though some opinions felt a little ahead of its time and it's interesting to make a parallel with current times. Manageable. 6/10.