“A Question of Silence” by Marleen Gorris (1982)

Rene Hirsch
MdW (movies directed by women)
1 min readAug 24, 2020

My Year’s Favorites (Aug. 2019-July 2020)

First Feature

Good humor, images, music and message
Excellent personages, dialogues and minority presence
Top script, direction and gender content

A very intelligent (and subversive) story in which a psychiatrist is asked to evaluate three women who have committed a murder without any reason and who refuse any attempt to reduce their ‘culpability’…

IMDB 6,4

Original title: De stilte rond Christine M…

Cast: Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Henriëtte Tol
Director: Marleen Gorris
Writer: Marleen Gorris
Music by Lodewijk de Boer, Martijn Hasebos
Cinematography by Frans Bromet
Film Editing by Hans van Dongen

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