meltzer:

“Both films are about film-making with, seemingly, women at the center. But this is just a red herring, because they are really about the primacy of males.”

Joon on the “softcore misogyny” (love it) of Broken Embraces and Nine.

Whoa. Yowza! I’m not sure I entirely agree with this but I’ll sure be thinking about it for a long time. (Also, Nine was GARBAGE! Politically, aesthetically, intellectually and just in terms of a plain old piece of pop culture: awful.)