Season 8 · Episode 9
Mona Lisa Smile with Kate Young
Australian author Kate Young is back on the pod to defend the sweet autumnal joy of 2003's Mona Lisa Smile
Sentimental Garbage · Justice for Dumb Women
October 14, 20211h 26mExplicit
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Show Notes
Mona Lisa Smile was a 2003 movie about women's education in the 1950s, and it was also the first Julia Roberts drama to spectacularly fail. We talk a lot about the negative reception to the film – in some cases, the negative reception from the cast itself. We discuss movies about education, and why no one ever seems to have quite the same high standards of filmmaking when it comes to making movies about men. We also talk about women who act against their own best interests, TERFs, evolving view points and whether Giselle would write a sex book. This one goes all over the shop but it's a really cosy and fun talk, just like the film!
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