“I want this film to hit men hard — but in a good way,” director Anastasia Mikova said.
Speaking at the Paris premiere of her movie “Woman,” which she directed with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova hopes the documentary will create a shift in the perception of womanhood.
“And I want women to see this film as a celebration of how amazing they are,” she continued. “So many of the women we interviewed kept saying, ‘Why me? Go talk to my friend, my neighbor!’ I wish they could realize that they all have an experience to share.” Some of the interviews are harrowing — women talking about sexual abuse, forced abortion or military horrors — others hilarious, like a young woman from South America complaining that pornography has led most men to use cringey catchphrases in bed. All of them remain anonymous: Only their faces are revealed to the camera.A team of 80 women worked as local fixers for the journalists filming in each country, and most interviews lasted two hours long. “You can’t improvise intimacy,” Mikova said.
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