Take It Like a Man, Ma'am (1975)
Director: Elisabeth Rygård, Mette Knudsen, Li Vilstrup
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An entertaining commercial feature arising from certain preoccupations within the women's movement, this represents a reasonably successful attempt to popularise aspects of feminist theory and film-making practice: respectively, the potential relationship between the movement and the older woman, and the realisation of an all-female production. The film traces the gradual coming-to-consciousness of a 50-year-old housewife, diagnosed as menopausal and prescribed tranquillisers and a little dog to look after. But the basis of its broad appeal is a long dream sequence which is a devastatingly accurate and hilarious depiction of role reversal. It's the seemingly simple strategy of this section which proves to be the film's real strength.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Elisabeth Rygård, Mette Knudsen, Li Vilstrup
Producer: Ilse M Haugård, Annelise Hovmand, Trine Hedmann
Cast: Tove Maës, Alf Lassen, Berthe Quistgård, Hans Kragh Jacobsen full cast
Duration: 96 mins
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