Women Reply
Feb 12 1975
•0h 8m
•Documentary
What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
Cast
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Agnès Varda
Self (voice)
Maryline Even
Woman (uncredited)
Caroline Baudry
Self (uncredited)
Catherine
Pregnant Woman (uncredited)
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