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The Famine Within -- Film Description:
"Using conventional documentary interviews and narration, complemented with striking evocative imagery, Gilday presents a wide cross section of women relating their own experiences with these disturbing conditions. [...] Among many of the perceptive observations in this film, it is suggested that these [eating] disorders are a desperate, if unconscious, protest against the denial of the feminine within both men and women."
-- Festival of Festivals


Source:
Festival of Festivals [Programme]. Toronto: Festival of Festivals, 1990. (p. 250)