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City of Women (1980)

★ 6.9 · 292 ratings on TMDB
City of Women poster★ 6.9

The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.

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City of Women keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing gender, prejudice, identity, power, freedom.

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