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Dec 19, 2018 · The Man Who Envied Women wryly chronicles the aftermath of a breakup between a philandering professor, played by two different actors, and his artist wife, voiced by choreographer Trisha Brown, who serves as the largely unseen narrator.
The Man Who Envied Women is a 1985 American film directed by Yvonne Rainer. The film is starring Jackie Raynal, Anne Friedberg and Larry Loonin in the lead roles.
Dec 22, 2017 · Ostensibly chronicling the end of the relationship between an unseen struggling artist, Trisha (Trisha Brown) and her lover, a university professor named Jack Deller as she confronts the (perhaps even greater) trauma of finding an affordable loft space during the wave of gentrification sweeping several subsidized housing communities throughout M...
Yvonne Rainer, The Man Who Envied Women. MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art. By Barbara Kruger. “I’ve never seduced a virgin or intruded upon a valid marriage,” declares a man who admits to the gentility of his social relations.
The Man Who Envied Women revolves around a central male presence and a central female “absence.” It opens with the scene of a woman-artist leaving her college-professor husband.
Film Info. The Man Who Envied Women sees Rainer, in her own words, “throw down the gauntlet to psychoanalytic feminist film theory,” interrogating and responding to contemporary debates over notions such as the male gaze with a drolly provocative hybrid essay film.
Aug 24, 2023 · The Man Who Envied Women, dir. Yvonne Rainer, USA 1985, 125 min., English. Around a familiar theme, the breakup of a marriage, Rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womaniser, Jack Deller, the man ‘who almost knows too much about women’.
