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Gracious Curves

Gracious Curves

1997 · 52 min · ★ 5.8 · Documentary

A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and the harshness of contemporary attitudes toward physicality, aging, and inevitable death. The focus is on female bodies, their variety, and the prejudices, processes, and living to which they - and the souls within them - are subjected.

Directed by Kiti Luostarinen · Written by Kiti Luostarinen

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