After giving birth, Joyce attempts to regain her position as a filmmaker while also caring for her new baby. The changes to both her and her husband’s professional lives are remarkable and frustrating. The new parents love the baby but must recognize the limitations she puts on their careers.
Direction
Two women filming their own lives — meta before meta was cool.
Editing
The cuts between baby cries and abandoned film equipment hurt.
Director
Joyce Chopra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in 1972, this predates second-wave feminism's 'having it all' burnout discourse by decades. Claudia Weill later directed 'Girlfriends' (1978), now considered a lost indie classic.
Joyce Chopra became a successful director (Smooth Talk, 1985), but this early short reveals the cost. The baby in the film? Her actual daughter.
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