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We Want Roses Too

Name: We Want Roses Too
Director: Alina Marazzi
Released: 2008
Duration: 85 min

Representation Score

8.7/10

Excellent

2008

Director

Alina Marazzi

Runtime

85 minutes

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Alina Marazzi’s documentary is a powerful exercise in feminist storytelling that prioritizes lived experience over detached objectivity. By using the personal diaries of three women, the film effectively dismantles the traditional, male-dominated historical record. The work excels at challenging gender hierarchies and transforming the domestic sphere from a site of restriction into a landscape of struggle and autonomy. However, the film's scope is limited. While it offers deep insights into Italian class and regional differences, it lacks significant representation of racial or disability-related issues, focusing instead on the socio-political development of women.

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Category Breakdown

Does We Want Roses Too have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film provides a narrative space for non-traditional identities by moving away from conventional societal roles. Although there are no explicit depictions of same-sex intimacy, the emphasis on personal freedom hints at the potential for greater LGBTQ visibility.

How does We Want Roses Too portray gender?

Excellent

This documentary focuses on three women who challenge patriarchal structures. It portrays the domestic sphere as a restrictive environment, giving the subjects significant roles to transcend traditional roles like 'obedient wife.'

How racially and ethnically diverse is We Want Roses Too?

Fair

Diversity in the film is centered around socioeconomic and regional Italian identities rather than multiple racial backgrounds. The film explores various social backgrounds and urban settings within a specific geographic context.

How does We Want Roses Too represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The film critiques traditional Western institutions and the patriarchal family structure. It prioritizes subjective truth over religious or institutional doctrine, presenting these structures as forces that suppress individual identity.

Does We Want Roses Too include disability representation?

Fair

The narrative focuses on the socio-political transitions of young women. There are no characters with visible or invisible disabilities that serve as meaningful narrative drivers.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional patriarchal and gender hierarchies.
Grants significant roles to female subjects through first-person narratives.
Uses subjective truth to challenge institutional historical records.

Limited or Absent

Limited representation of racial and ethnic diversity.
No characters with visible or invisible disabilities.
Narrow geographic and cultural focus on Italian social backgrounds.

Official Synopsis

The film looks again at recent events from a female point of view, through the first-hand accounts provided by the diaries of three women. Rather than focusing on the alleged objectivity of facts, the film gives space to a chorus of voices that narrate those events in first person, visually supported by archival footage of the period, drawn from the most varied sources - institutional, public, militant and private. Anita, Teresa and Valentina come from different Italian regions and different social backgrounds, but share the same feelings: they no longer feel as part of a society based on the patriarchal family, on the power of "husbands" and on the supremacy of males, which requires them to be efficient mothers, obedient wives and virtuous daughters.

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