“I like it when you talk”, a film to reflect on the meaning of feminism

Its premiere is scheduled for this Thursday, March 7, at the Gaumont cinema I like it when you talka documentary made entirely by Argentine women, which invites us to reflect on the true meaning of feminism.

The film Take a look at a day in the life of different women: an erotic poet, an influencer, an environmental activist, an agricultural worker, the CEO of a company and a housewife. Through their experiences a question arises: what is the image that represents your feminism?

“Feminist is much more than the girls who waved the green scarf”, explains one of the screenwriters of the project, Sol Bonelli. In some ways, that sentence sums up what this film manages to break: the image left in the popular imagination of what a feminist should be.

I like the way you talk tells the story of several women who, from anonymity, and sometimes without realizing it, fight every day for gender equality. “What moved me most was this, thinking about it a feminism without big names, transversal to all social classes and the different activities we can carry out,” commented Bonelli Clarion.

The project, according to her story, was born immediately after the end of the women’s struggle for the conquest of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy in 2018, when the image created by the media of a feminist was that of the one “who will break everything in the square”.

This documentary aims to put an end to this prejudice. “Feminism is in everyday life. It does not only appear in a situation of unwanted pregnancy or in a situation of gender violence.“, explained the screenwriter.

Break with what is established

Silvina Estevez She is one of the two directors of this ambitious documentary (the other is Marlene Grinberg), and from the beginning she was very clear about what she wanted to tell. “We wanted to start a project that embodied in real life women, of different ages and social classes, their way of being feminists in everyday life. The film does not address the public version of a feminist and her militancy, but rather What is a feminist like in private life?“, he said during his interview with Clarion.

“The idea is to get rid of that stigma and remove ourselves from the mandate of what a feminist should be, to understand that feminism actually seeks inclusion, equity and equality in different ways,” Silvina explained , nephew of the actress Inés Estévez.

Also, along the same lines, she added that “there are so many ways to address the struggles of feminism that, if you ask, most women feel represented by some of these struggles.”

More than giving an answer, the film tries to make viewers start asking questions about feminism that they had never considered before.

“The documentary doesn’t have this idea of ​​closure and lowering the line. The idea is rather open-ended questions about what a more inclusive, equal and fair world would look like. Ultimately, this is the research of the film and, according to our reading, also of feminism”, said the director.

And this objective is something that Sol Bonelli also had clear from the beginning. “We wanted to bombard with real women that armed archetype that is part of the immense range of feminisms that exist today. It is not correct to talk about just one, because it is very varied and has many edges that do not always coincide,” said the screenwriter.

I like it when you talk It will be screened at the Cinema Gaumont (Av. Rivadavia 1635, CABA), from 7 to 13 March at 6pm.