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Welcome to  THE LADIES ROOM

XXX presents a unique documentary on  DATE at TIME at Place.

 

THE LADIES ROOM, a 42-minute documentary by Cynthia Salzman Mondell. The documentary goes behind that public door marked "Ladies" to reveal a world away from men where women feel free of all rules and expectations. While fixing their hair and exchanging lipsticks, women share their uncensored thoughts about a wide range of concerns - sex, men, love, lovers, mothers, body image, marriage and divorce.

 

Cynthia captured these intimate conversations while wandering in and out of restrooms with a video camera. Without any funding she has pieced together her project like a video quilt for several years. The video is her tribute to the emotional honesty of women.

 

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Within the confines of a woman’s bathroom, THE LADIES ROOM shows how women spontaneously and temporarily bond and communicate in a way that is unique to their gender. High school girls in their prom dresses lamenting about their dates while they try to keep their strapless dresses from falling down; an 80-year-old woman bragging about her 93-year-old boyfriend; the duo who offer advice to a complete stranger about whether she should divorce her husband; the mother revealing to her two daughters that she never loved their father; the middle-aged women comparing lovers. You find it all in THE LADIES ROOM.

                                                                                                                                         

Cynthia Salzman Mondell has worked with her partner Allen Mondell since l978 on more than 30 documentaries. Their work includes the six films for The Sixth Floor Museum at the former Texas School Book Depository in Dallas on the life, death and legacy of President John Kennedy; DREAMS OF EQUALITY, a history of women for the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York; WEST OF HESTER STREET, about Jewish immigration from Russia to Galveston, Texas, in  the early l900's. Their work has won numerous awards and has been broadcast in the U.S. and on foreign television.  Check their website at www.mediaprojects.org.

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