Movie reviews

DIE GÖTTLICHE ORDNUNG (THE DIVINE ORDER)

Watchable. It harks back to the times when Swiss women were fighting for voting rights - only to be won as late as 1981-1990 depending on cantons. Hard to believe, though it appears to be based on facts, that in the 1970s there were still women, living with their husbands and sometimes even children, who never had orgasms. At first that seems a trivial and awkward episode in the story but that's how far their rights were neglected. They lived with guys even though they didn't satisfy them. While the world has gone a long way since then, their struggle and mass protests resemble much those we experience now in Poland. The spite and aggression, both from most men and some women, are just the same. It was interesting to see the process of the social change when women stopped cooking and cleaning and went to work. But the story lacks suspense. It's only for people interested in women's rights outside the cinema as well.