Today from 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is A Woman Like Eve (dir. Nouchka van Brakel, 1979), with an introduction by Jette Kalma.

Taking in a final little bit of warmth now that the weather is getting really cold through a Dutch summertime lesbian romance. This weeks film ‘Een vrouw als Eva’ (A Woman Like Eve) is also the second female directed feature film in Dutch cinematic history. The film follows Eva (Monique van de Ven), a burnt out housewife and mother of two children who gets sent on a holiday to the south of France by her husband. While on the holiday she meets and starts falling in love with a woman, Liliane (Maria Schneider). The story is a delicate love story between the women, where Eva has to accept the feelings she has for Liliane, but also deals with the complicated societal pressures lesbians and women in general had and have to deal with. The film also had a lot going on behind the scenes, from the main actress threatening to sue if she didn’t get the role to the entire cast and crew being attacked by a group of feminists while filming. The film gives us a unique and layered portrayal of a lesbian relationship and is an incredibly interesting part of dutch and general film history but is not talked about enough!