WQ:Docs 2024
US PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
1985
Pumping Iron II
The Women
Saturday
Nov 16
@
9:00 pm
WQ:Docs 2024
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Pumping Iron II
The Women
Saturday
,
Nov 16
@
9:00 pm
WQ:Docs 2024
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
Pumping Iron II
The Women
Saturday
Nov 16
@
9:00 pm
Brattle Theater
With
in person.
Long before Love Lies Bleeding, there was Pumping Iron II: The Women. This little-seen sequel to the film that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a superstar follows a group of four women as they prepare and compete in the 1983 Caesars World Cup in Las Vegas: butch Australian powerlifter (and now out lesbian) Bev Francis, the more traditionally feminine Rachel McLish, former synchronized swimmer Carla Dunlap, and Texan Lori Bowen, who hopes to win so her bodybuilder boyfriend can quit his job as a male stripper. Beyond simply being a wildly entertaining documentary, Pumping Iron II: The Women raises fascinating questions about gender, femininity, and society's expectations of womanhood that feels more relevant now than ever as trans athletes continue to lose their right to compete. Can a woman be TOO muscular? Is the best female bodybuilder the one with the most muscles, or the one that can match brawn with femininity? Come find out in Pumping Iron II: The Women, the rare sequel that greatly surpasses the original.
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Long before Love Lies Bleeding, there was Pumping Iron II: The Women. This little-seen sequel to the film that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a superstar follows a group of four women as they prepare and compete in the 1983 Caesars World Cup in Las Vegas: butch Australian powerlifter (and now out lesbian) Bev Francis, the more traditionally feminine Rachel McLish, former synchronized swimmer Carla Dunlap, and Texan Lori Bowen, who hopes to win so her bodybuilder boyfriend can quit his job as a male stripper. Beyond simply being a wildly entertaining documentary, Pumping Iron II: The Women raises fascinating questions about gender, femininity, and society's expectations of womanhood that feels more relevant now than ever as trans athletes continue to lose their right to compete. Can a woman be TOO muscular? Is the best female bodybuilder the one with the most muscles, or the one that can match brawn with femininity? Come find out in Pumping Iron II: The Women, the rare sequel that greatly surpasses the original.
This film is presented in
English
with English subtitles.
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