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Books by Carol Lee Flinders
"Nobody navigates the intersection of the spiritual and political like Carol Lee Flinders."
– Sue Monk Kidd
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Films About Motherlines
Antonia's Line (Dutch, filmed in Belgium)
Set in Holland immediately after World War II, Antonia's Line is the story of a woman who returns with her teenaged daughter to the village of her birth, takes over the family farm, and brings together an extended family of her own that is, in effect, both matrilineal and matri-local. . . More>>
Waitress
Waitress was marketed as a comedy, and it is certainly very funny, but its deeper currents of meaning call out for repeated viewings. Jenna is a waitress in small-town cafe with a gift for making memorable pies, and she has her eye on the $25,000 prize in a regional pie-baking championship. If she can open her own pie shop she can transform her life. . . More>>
Volver (Spain)
Director Pedro Almodóvar says of Volver, “it is precisely about death...More than about death itself, the screenplay talks about the rich culture that surrounds death in the region of La Mancha, where I was born. It is about the way (not tragic at all) in which various female characters, of different generations, deal with this culture. . . ” More>>
Sequins (Brodeuses, in French)
Claire is seventeen, single, and, though no-one else knows it yet, five months pregnant. She is also a talented fabric artist, passionate about her work. Claire has already moved out of her home to escape the turbulence of her parents' marriage. Her tiny apartment is also her studio and a refuge for her little brother. But how will she support herself now . . . more>>
Mother and Child
Three children, one not yet born. Three lives that are obscurely linked. Rodrigo Garcia has made his career with films sympathetic to the feelings of women, and his "Mother and Child" is so emotionally affecting because it is concerned only with their feelings. The storylines coil and eventually join, but that's just a narrative device. If these characters had no connection, their lives would be equally evocative. Availiability: Netflix - Amazon
Daughters of the Dust
"A film of spellbinding visual beauty and brilliant resonant performances, Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" explores the unique culture of the Gullah people, descendents of slaves lived in relative isolation on the Sea Islands off the Georgia coast. With a haunting lyricism, "Daughters" tells the story of a large African American family as they prepare to move north at the dawn of the 20th century. Focusing on the family's matriarch and her abused daughter, the film brings to life the changing values, conflicts and struggles that confront every family as they leave their homeland for the promise of a new and better future." (Amazon Review) Availiability: Netflix - Amazon
House of Sand
"House of Sand" follows three generations of women, from 1910 to 1969, as they eke out a living in the hostile, desert-like environment along Brazil's Northern coase. A mother and daughter muddle through with the help of slave descendents as the film moves through the decades, demonstrating that the human's -- especially the female's --capacity for survival knows no bounds. Availiability: Netflix - Amazon
Frozen River
In the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec, two women- one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances- are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River.As as tense as any Hollywood thriller, but so grounded in the fully developed characters of these two women that the taut suspense grips the full spectrum of emotions. Availiability: Netflix - Amazon
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