Marleen Gorris: Practices of Resistance

by Sue Thornham

Dutch director Marleen Gorris is known chiefly for two films: A Question of Silence (1982), her fiercely feminist first film, in which three women meet by chance in a women's clothing boutique and ritually murder its male owner; and Antonia's Line (1995), her fourth film and winner of the 1996 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which traces four generations of Antonia's female 'line' in the matriarchal community she establishes in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399527967
• ISBN13: 9781399527965
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 170 Pages