Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver in a scene from the film, which aspires to position itself in awards season.
Actresses Elizabeth Banks (The hunger games) Y Sigourney Weaver (Alien) stars in a true-event drama that puts the spotlight on the right to abortion in the United States and will premiere on October 28.
The film is titled Call Jane and comes at a critical time in terms of women’s reproductive rights as on June 24 the US Supreme Court overturned the historic 50-year ruling granting access to voluntary termination of pregnancy.
The film tells the story of a group of women who create a system to support other women who decide to undergo clandestine abortions in the city of Chicago in the late 1960s, when the laws still criminalized these practices.
Sigourney Weaver found a gap between filming the new “Avatar” movies. Clarin archive photo
Banks plays Joy, a housewife whose pregnancy is endangering her health and that’s why she ends up contacting and joining this group led by Virginia, the character of Weaver.
Call Jane alludes to the real name of this collective officially known as the “Abortion Counseling Service”, which was affiliated with the “Women’s Liberation Union” and operated in Chicago from 1969 to 1973.
A current film that seeks to raise awareness
On the other hand, Call Jane it also underlines the lack of health resources dedicated to the protection of women’s reproductive rights and, above all, underlines the additional difficulties encountered by African Americans in accessing them.
Elizabeth Banks, in 2017, at one of the post-Oscar parties. AP photo
A very controversial attitude that caused a sensation at the time, but served as an inspiration to other groups of women to pave the way for the right to abortion in the country.
In fact, in 1973, five years after the events narrated in Call Jane-, the United States Supreme Court approved the “Roe v. Wade ”, which constitutionally protected voluntary termination of pregnancy until its cancellation in June.
That is why today the right to abortion is once again as controversial as the media in the United States is. and the manufacturers of Call Jane They decided this was a great time to promote and preview this fiction that seeks to raise awareness and reclaim a historic struggle.
Weaver is Virginia, the character Elizabeth Banks, who is pregnant, goes to. AFP photo
His goal is to keep audiences around the film longer and bring them to the next awards season in top shape.
Screened at Sundance and Berlin
Call Jane, produced by Roadside Attractions, was selected by the Sundance Festival, the largest independent film festival in the world, and by the Berlin International Film Festival in its 2022 edition.
In addition to Banks – who in recent years has also dedicated himself to film directing – and Weaver – who has been busy shooting the sequels of Avatar-, the cast of this drama consists of actors Chris Messina, Wunmi Mosaku, Kate Mara, Cory Michael Smith, Grace Edwards and John Magaro, among others.
The film was directed by Phyllis Nagyl, a New York-based director nominated for an Oscar for Charles (2015). While the script was co-written by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi, the creators of the series. The resident.
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Source: Clarin
