Word: woman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look like an authentic woman: "almond shaped eyes, 80,000, silicone in lips, forehead, cheeks, and ass--the liter costs 60,000 pesetas; you add it up, because I stopped counting. Tits? Two. I'm no monster." Agrado's entry into the action gives the film a sardonic appeal but destroys the integrity...
...continuously cloaked in red. Thus, dress provides no clues as to where scenes of tension replace scenes of relaxation. Visually, each scene has an obnoxious similarity to the one before. Despite the melodrama and technique slip-ups, Almodvar allows the women to learn about themselves even though each woman creates a new reality within her existence. Manuela pretends to be a poor theater aficionado, Agrado pretends to be a real woman, Huma wishes to run from a heart broken by her cocaine-snorting junkie girlfriend, and Sister Rosa must hide from the order and her parents. Yet in this situation...
...various devices, the Dardennes refuse to present her as a victim; conversely, she is the antithesis: proud, fearless and dynamic. The sole artifice employed to make us fall for Rosetta is by making her the sole significant locus of attention. In fact, in a performance truly remarkable for a woman of 17 (no less a film rookie), Emilie Duquenne, in the title role, fills the lens in every tightly shot frame. Duquenne's performance is one of subtlety and internal calculation. Her vacant expression as she decides whether she should save her drowning friend is absolutely chilling, and the defiance...
Barbara J. Grosz, McKay professor of computer science and the only tenured woman in the Computer Science Department, says that women are rarely included in the decision-making process within departments...
...When I go to meetings, I don't go out for drinks afterwards...or the poker game," she says. "I'm a woman, I'm not interested in being one of the guys...