Falling in the middle of actress-turned-director Kinuyo Tanaka’s directing work, FOREVER A WOMAN (titled in Japanese as THE ETERNAL BREASTS) is an unflinching portrait of a woman seeking to define herself against the assumptions the world makes about her. After divorcing her unfaithful husband, Fumiko is diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer on the cusp of a lucrative poetry career. The people who remain, or become, part of her life – and her willingness to accept their perceptions of her – help define the remainder of her tragically short life. THE PRECISE COMPOSITIONS OF KINUYO TANAKA (Sept 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-precise-compositions-of-kinuyo-tanaka/ CRACKING OPEN THE DISNEY VAULT (Sept at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/cracking-open-the-disney-vault/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: End credits music by Takanobu Saitô from the FOREVER A WOMAN soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 190: FOREVER A WOMAN (1955) 02:15 - The episode actually starts 3:36 - Cody’s Beanboozled check-in 5:40 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 10:13 - Fumiko’s rejection of pity in the face of the world’s perception of her 26:04 - The assumptions characters make about Fumiko 40:24 - The visual storytelling 53:22 - The performances 59:20 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Feud (female directors trivia)
