Director George Cukor’s 1939 classic “The Women” is a pretty superb and remarkable film, and that’s because it features a primarily female cast. There isn’t a male cast member in the entire cast of seasoned performers, and while this might be cause for wonder in regards to the context of the story, the narrative really doesn’t need men. Cukor’s film is about women both old and young, and how they deal with the world and each other. Men are really irrelevant in the grand scheme of the social structure of the female and how their bonds with one another craft their future. While primarily depicted as a comedy, it’s also very much a sad drama about how women deal with their issues of infidelity and insignificance. Their issues and problems are real, while the consequences of infidelity and divorce really create a tidal wave of heartbreak and trauma that lasts throughout the narrative.

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