An Unmarried Woman

I can't believe a man wrote this.

Marie Bardi

Do you ever have the feeling where a movie was actually made for you? Where every character reminds you of either yourself or someone you know well? Where every time you hear the (perfect) score you feel energized and happy? Where every scene is so entertaining but also…

Sam

There’s a great use of long takes AND Jill Clayburgh giving an outstanding performance AND feminist themes AND a combination of multiple amazing genres AND it’s from the 70s AND it takes place in New York AND it’s perfectly written AND I love the music AND there’s a great…

Sam

sometimes you just have to sit on your bed with all your friends and talk about how powerful and incomparable katharine hepburn is

eely

The sweet, dangerous Phase 2 love between Clayburgh and Bates, vivid and intoxicating. Adult vulnerability you don’t understand until you’ve been hurt. Children of divorce, who can relate. Show me one film in which Michael Murphy does not play venal scum. Wish my mom and I…

Sean Fennessey

Lots of great stuff here. *The frankness & realism of conversation between women *Clayburgh's honesty and ever expressive face *Maybe I'm amazed! *Dancing in your apartment in nothing but a night shirt and panties *Colour palette is eggshell white almost always, but…

Willow Maclay

This movie has way too much casual sax in it.

DallasFrance

A subtly natural yet chaotically impressive amalgamation of the expressive nature and underlying perplexities of relationships, mental health and sexuality. It’s a metaphor that swirls around a character and inspects her in a simultaneously euphoric yet depressing way that…

Sam

As the rights of women (and the rest of us) are actively being stripped away, it's probably a good idea to remember that the idea of a woman choosing not to define herself via her relationship with men is still such an exceedingly rare thing in film even today that it feels…

Sally Jane Black