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Gracious Curves

1997 · 52 min

A quiet, thoughtful documentary that asks you to sit with women's candid reflections on bodies, aging, and mortality.

Overview
A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and the harshness of contemporary attitudes toward physicality, aging, and inevitable death. The focus is on female bodies, their variety, and the prejudices, processes, and living to which they - and the souls within them - are subjected.

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    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • aging
    • gender
    • death
    • isolation
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
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    Action0
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism9
    Romance1
    Tension2
    Darkness5
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Kiti Luostarinen
    Written by
    Kiti Luostarinen
    Starring
    Kiti Luostarinen, Eeva-Maija Haukinen, Aune Järveläinen, Diana Webster
    Runtime
    52 min
    Country
    Finland
    Languages
    Finnish

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