Synopsis
Anita, Teresa and Valentina have never met. They lived in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, at different ages and in different cities. But their true stories, recorded in diaries, are part of an ideal continuity, and bear witness to family and political struggles, personal and collective, to assert their autonomy, their identity and their rights in a patriarchal country. Vogliamo anche le rose (We want roses too) tells the story of the profound change brought about by sexual liberation and the feminist movement in Italy at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s.
A word from Tënk
The feminist slogan "we want bread, but we want roses too" was first chanted by thousands of textile workers on strike in Massachusetts in 1912. The director Alina Marazzi, after the success of Un'ora sola ti vorrei (For One More Hour with You) returns to pay tribute to the Italian women of the 60s and 70s.
These two films have become the "manifesto" of Italian and international feminist documentary cinema, but also of documentary film archives (public and private).
Vogliamo anche le rose (We Want Roses Too) is a creative feature film using period archives, which tells three stories of young Italian women living in different cities. Actresses reading their diaries express at the same time a cry for freedom and political and sexual emancipation in a still patriarchal and macho society. These were the years of the labor and student movements, but also of the struggles for the right to abortion and divorce.
The title chosen by Marazzi suggests that women wanted more rights, but without giving up the roses, and therefore the dream of a happy and romantic love.
Giovanni Princigalli
Filmmaker and teacher
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