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Gracious Curves(1997)
Status: Released
Date: 1997-03-28
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7 Votes
Time: 0h 52m
Overview:
A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and the harshness of contemporary attitudes toward physicality, aging, and inevitable death. The focus is on female bodies, their variety, and the prejudices, processes, and living to which they - and the souls within them - are subjected.
Languages: Finnish.
Countries:
Finland
ProductionCompanies:
Epidem
Movie: Gracious Curves
Top 4 Billed Cast
Eeva-Maija Haukinen
Narrator (voice)
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A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and the harshness of contemporary attitudes toward physicality, aging, and inevitable death. The focus is on female bodies, their variety, and the prejudices, processes, and living to which they - and the souls within them - are subjected.
Release Date
1997-03-28
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