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13 December 2010

Bloody mamas: violence against women in art and life

Lucretia-bleeding

“Lucretia” had me riveted for another reason. I had just reviewed Darren Aronofsky’s overheated gothic horror flick, Black Swan. The director and his all-male screenwriting team subject their female characters to as numbing a level of disrespect as possible without being pornographic. [...]