A Woman Like Eve

A Woman Like Eve (1979)

Een Vrouw als Eva

A devoted yet stressed out housewife takes a holiday to relax, and falls in love with another woman: a guitar-playing hippie who lives in a commune.

Date of release
1979-01-25
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Nouchka van Brakel

Casting

Interesting facts

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A Woman Like Eve is a 1979 Dutch drama film directed by Nouchka van Brakel. The film stars Monique van de Ven in the title role of Eve, with Peter Faber as her husband Ad and Maria Schneider as Liliane, who becomes Eve's lover.

Background

When asked about why it has taken so long for Americans to produce a film with this subject matter, Monique van de Ven replied:The Dutch have less of a problem communicating with each other than Americans do. The reason is that we are 14 million people of the same nationality, whereas Americans are many nationalities with 250 million population.

Van de Ven told the Seattle Gay News that the film had a profound affect on her personal life. She said it was the first movie where she "felt very lonely." She went on to say that it was the first time she was "really involved" in a project, and that she couldn't recall ever putting so much energy into a film mentally.

In June 1979, Van Brakel recalled at the twelfth annual Motion Picture Seminar of the Northwest in Seattle, that the feminist movement in the Netherlands, was originally opposed to the film, but after its release, they decided to go ahead and accept it.

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