The Divorced Women's Film Festival

“In my book, No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce, I tell a story about how I spent the first years of my divorced life as if I was programming a Divorced Women’s Film Festival. I watched my favorites on a loop, collecting and sending recommendations like assignments. I was not ready to talk about what I was going through, but I was always wanting to talk about which movies felt truest. When my friend told me Martin Scorsese considered The Age of Innocence the most violent movie he’s ever made, I knew I had found a soulmate; when my sisters and I watched The First Wives Club, we had found a way to laugh about something we recognized but weren’t old enough to understand. Jill Clayburgh dancing in An Unmarried Woman, Juliette Binoche putting on a new pair of earrings: these are classics not because they are reflections of life, exactly, but because they can be visions of our feelings.”

—Series curator Haley Mlotek