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Masculin/féminin dans le film Parfum de femme et dans son remake Le Temps d’un week-end
Male / Female in the Film Scent of Women (The Original and its Remake)

Author(s): Ionel Buse
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Studies of Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Govanni Arpino; Scent of Women; Gender; Gaston Bachelard; Anima; Androgyny;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the relation between genders in the movies Scent of Women (the original and its remake). Our approach can be considered as an exercise in Jungian-Bachelardian interpretation through the grid of a poetics of androgyny, which attests that a man and a woman speak inthe solitude of our being, according to the expression of Gaston Bachelard. Beyondthe different constructions of the two cinematographic productions, critics generally consider that the two films have as common themes: the crisis of modernity revealed by the tragic and blind loneliness of modern man, the initiation of a young man to the misfortunes of life and to the love of women.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 276-285
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French