Battle of the Sexes: Birth

Battle of the Sexes is a series featuring films directed by women about men and films directed by men about women. Through titles like American Psycho, La Captive, Marnie, and Birth, our speakers will interrogate how films reinforce or distort gender roles. The series is hosted by Gabrielle Marceau from In the Mood Magazine.

“Jonathan Glazer’s hypnotic and disturbing Birth examines how social expectations clash with our deepest longings.

Ten years after her husband’s death, a woman is preparing to remarry when a young boy shows up in her home, claiming to be her dead husband reincarnated. Soon, she finds herself increasingly willing to believe him and to unravel her life in the process.

Jonathan Glazer uses upper-class decorum and the backdrop of a gorgeously bleak New York winter to create a suffocating examination of a woman’s inner world.”

Introduced by Namah. Her writing can be found in Little White Lies, Cornelia & C Magazine. The impossibility of desire keeps her up at night.