“I asked the censor what was wrong with my film. He said, ‘The female protagonist is immoral: she sleeps around for money and, what’s more, she comes out of it alive. Film me a version where she’s killed at the end, and your film will be authorised.”
Nelly Kaplan on the censorship of women filmmakers, her collaboration with Abel Gance, her friendship with Picasso and the Surrealists and advice to aspiring filmmakers.
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