Antiphallic

Featuring two uninhibited young women who are both named Marie--whose various escapades, which add up less to a plot than to a string of outrageous set pieces, include several antiphallic gags, and a free-for-all with fancy food rivaling Laurel and Hardy that got Chytilova in lots of trouble with the authorities--this is a disturbing yet liberating tour de force from a talented director showing what she can do with freedom.

In this chapter I will examine, on the one hand, how the sexual fantasies codified in harem texts may be used to construe an antiphallic, gynarchic model of "what a woman wants," […]