Quote:
"A feature-length documentary about battered women may not sound like your idea of a good time, but Gail Singer is a witty, irreverent film director with a knack for confounding expectations. You Can't Beat a Woman, which opens at Toronto's Carlton Cinema in mid-January and will also turn up shortly in Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ottawa, is far from the grim ordeal you might expect, given the topic. Singer has been tracking this subject for the better part of two decades. In 1979, she made a 25-minute film called Loved, Honored and Bruised, in which an abused Winnipeg woman named Jeannie Fox and her husband talked with startling candor about their own domestic violence. A few years ago, the National Film Board asked Singer to make a full-length documentary on the subject of wife-battering, but she realized that a solemn, straightforward approach would no longer work."
-- Martin Knelman

Source:
Knelman, Martin. "You can't beat a woman." Review of You Can't Beat a Woman!. Financial Post Magazine, January 1998. (p. 16)