The fact that the first shot says "Entracte" and that it's in the middle of the film and features music means it has all the hallmarks of an intermission, but it's nothing you'd want to duck out on to take a leak. That was amazing.

You know who's really good at writing for women? Women.

There used to be a lot of them in the US and UK film industries, mostly given outlines and asked to write the dialog. That fell apart in the 1960s when the studio system collapsed. But the female audience also collapsed, staying home and watching daytime television instead.

And by the late 1970s, the audience was quite young and mostly male, and they are not very interested in compelling female characters.