Antonia’s Line, a woman’s family chronicle

Sodelujejo/ participants: Els Dottermans, Marcel Štefančič Jr. & dr. Neva
Šlibar 
Moderator: Uršula Cetinski

The film Antonia’s Line, by Dutch director Marleen Gorris, which will
be premiered in Slovenia
during the City of Women,
is definitely a contribution to the cinema of the ‘90s deserving of a special
presentation. The story, based on the director’s outstanding

screenplay, inverts traditional, patrilineal family chronicles. The
director/writer introduces just a slight twist, which dramatically alters the flow
of the narrative: it follows a family matrilineally.

At the same time, ‘Antonia’s Line’ belongs among those rare and
precious films in which women are really themselves and not merely images of
stereotypical ideas about them. The author subtly mixes different periods and
narrative perspectives; Dr. Neva Šlibar will be discussing this aspect of the
film. By winning an Oscar for best foreign film, this funny and witty film,
which embodies the director’s feminist principles and beliefs, found itself in the
context of Hollywood.
Marcel Štefančič Jr. will tell us more about that.

It will be a great honour to welcome the Belgian actress, Els
Dottermans, who will also take part in the discussion. She has given some
outstanding performances in the theatre and on film, including that of
Antonia’s daughter, Danielle.

In collaboration with: Cankarjev dom