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ANTONIA: A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN. A loving record of the life of Antonia Brico, a symphony conductor scarred but not humbled by the problem of being a woman and an artist in America. This beautifully fashioned documentary by Jill Godmilow and Judy Collins never bows to rhetoric or pity...
...feeling of duty toward other women is also partly the result of a second, more personal, and perhaps even more compelling motive--one which lies behind such diverse efforts as the Berkshire Conference on the history of women, Judy Collins's and Jill Godmilow's film portrait of Antonia Brico, and the Thode Island Feminist Theatre. It is a feeling that many women, myself included, have that we will be truly free to establish our own identities only if we first rescue our counterparts in the past and the present from anonymity. If our goal is to redress an imbalance...
...mood of frustration gradually prevails, brought to focus during a kitchen conversation in which Antonia Brico speaks angrily, nearly crying, about opportunities denied, chances diverted...
...lhat he thought the female gender made for a certain frailty of musician ship. Antonia is modest only in aspect, not in intention. Collins and Godmilow mean to show that a musician of invigorating talent was shunted aside because of a prejudice against her sex that still prevails. The Brico abilities are strong and bracing, much like the woman herself. Some of the most moving moments of the film lie in the record of her talent: in newspaper headlines (GIRL GENIUS...
...FIRST LADY OF MUSIC) and on a scratchy 78 of conducting her own Brico Symphony Orchestra...