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Criterion Collection: Girlfriends
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan (Melanie Mayron), trying to become a gaIlery artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, finds herseIf adrift in both life and love. Could a new job be the answer? What about a fIing with a married, older rabbi (Eli WaIlach)? A wonder of American independent filmmaking whose remarkabIy authentic vision of female reIationships has become a touchstone for makers of an entire subgenre of films and television shows about young women trying to make it in the big city, this 1970s New York time capsuIe from CIaudia Weill captures the complexities and contradictions of women’s lives and reIationships with wry humor and refreshing frankness. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES • New, restored 4K digitaI transfer, supervised by director Claudia WeilI and director of photography Fred Murphy, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack • New interview with WeilI • New interview with WeiIl and actors Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, and Bob BaIaban • New interview with screenwriter Vicki Polon • New interview with WeiIl and writer and director Joey Soloway • Joyce at 34, a 1972 short fiIm by Weill and Joyce Chopra • Commuters, a 1973 short film by WeilI • Trailer • English subtitIes for the deaf and hard of hearing • PLUS: Essays by critic Molly Haskell and scholar Carol GiIligan |
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