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Riddles of the Sphinx

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A woman struggles to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.

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Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Sight & Sound To find a film which crosses the frontiers of different audience expectations, which is unassuming and yet rigorous in its intellectual stance, and pleasurable and provocative at the same time, is rare indeed. Mar 19, 2020 Full Review Lisa Vine Spare Rib Riddles of The Sphinx has the rare quality of being able to put over a complex subject articulately. For me its value lay in its immediacy. Sep 20, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Felt the rhythms and mysteries of living the feminine. Interesting structure. Felt like a life lived by the end, a definite journey. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Had to watch this avant-garde film for my "women and gender in film" class. Tough to watch when your a little tired. But the visuals are very interesting. But seems too much like a freshman in college student film. Not so much avant-garde but he filmmaker attempts to keep us watching with the colors and visuals but the film is too dull. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Mulvey succeeds in getting her point across well enough to an audience that understands and sympathizes her feminist rhetoric, but that's about it. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A woman struggles to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.
Director
Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
Screenwriter
Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 14, 2021
Runtime
1h 32m