Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Where the DNA of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown travels
Films that shaped it
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I have to admit that Truffaut, especially 'Jules and Jim,' with its audacity and freedom, opened many doors for me as a young filmmaker. The way he dealt with emotions and narrative structure was very liberating.
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Fellini is the maestro from my youth. He is the director who taught me how to put the camera inside the mind of women. Of course, Giulietta degli spiriti is the most important film in this sense, because it is a direct portrait of the interior of a woman, with this explosion of color and this fantasy. I can definitely see its mark in my earlier films like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Films it shaped
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Greta Gerwig has said she watched Jacques Demy's 1964 French musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a film where every word is sung, every surface is saturated with color, and understood immediately what Barbieland should be: a world where artifice isn't dishonesty, it's the only language adequate to feeling. Demy's films are devastating precisely because they're beautiful. The same sadness hides inside Barbie.
