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We Want Roses Too

  • March 2008
  • 1hr

    25mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Alina Marazzi,

    Starring

    Anita Caprioli,

    Teresa Saponangelo,

    Valentina Carnelutti,

    The film looks again at recent events from a female point of view, through the first-hand accounts provided by the diaries of three women. Rather than focusing on the alleged objectivity of facts, the film gives space to a chorus of voices that narrate those events in first person, visually supported by archival footage of the period, drawn from the most varied sources - institutional, public, militant and private. Anita, Teresa and Valentina come from different Italian regions and different social backgrounds, but share the same feelings: they no longer feel as part of a society based on the patriarchal family, on the power of "husbands" and on the supremacy of males, which requires them to be efficient mothers, obedient wives and virtuous daughters.