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CLOTHESLINES

Director:

  Roberta Cantow
  

Year Released:

  1981

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

4 out of 5

3.5 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Wives
  Husbands
  Daughters
  Neighbors
  Friends
Movie Haiku:Poetic doc about the role of laundry in women's lives, with beautiful musical score by Alice Eve Cohen. The film presents a vivid account of how various women respond to the monotony of mundane tasks with creative determination, & use laundry as a means of communicating their values to their daughters.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  No

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2005