Arquette interviews 34 actresses about their lives as actresses and women; her starting point being THE RED SHOES which she saw when young and it's dancer heroine torn between her career or becoming a wife.
It culminates in her interviewing Debra Winger who in the mid-1990s stopped making films to raise her children.
The participants are Patricia Arquette, Emmanuelle Béart, Katrin Cartlidge (who died soon after), Laura Dern, Jane Fonda, Teri Garr, Whoopi Goldberg, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Diane Lane, Kelly Lynch, Julianna Marguiles, Chiara Mastroianni, Samantha Mathis, Frances McDormand, Catherine O'Hara, Julia Ormond, Gwyneth Paltrow, Martha Plimpton, Charlotte Rampling, Vanessa Redgrave, Theresa Russell, Meg Ryan, Ally Sheedy, Adrienne Shelly, Hilary Shepard, Sharon Stone, Tracey Ullman, JoBeth Williams, Alfre Woodard and Robin Wright.
Laudable but it's flat tone is regrettable.
Shelf or charity shop? The film certainly has it's highpoints - Jane Fonda's rapturous monologue on the magic of getting it right on a film set - are worth maybe keeping this in the DVD limbo of the plastic storage box but these are few amid the usual - and timeless - talk of no roles for older women and the pressures put on young actresses, Bearing in mind Rosanna Arquette has said that Harvey Weinstein had her career ruined when she refused to have sex with him in the early 1990s - one wonders that if she made this film today would the result be more hard-hitting?
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