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Did your latest movie pass the 'Bechdel test'?

Several Swedish movie theaters have started marking movies according to the requirements..

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Are there two or more women who talk to each other about subjects other than men? Thats the requirement for a film to pass the Bechdel test. Several Swedish movie theaters (Spegeln in Malm, Rda Kvarn in Helsingborg, Bio Rio in Stockholm, and Bio Roy in Gteborg) are now marking the films that pass the test with a special mark.
Its an extremely low threshold, and it is by far not a gender equality test, says Cornelia Bjurstrm, director at Bio Roy. But there are so very many movies that do not pass the test. The Bechdel test has been around since 1985, and is named after the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, who in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, wrote a part titled The Rule, where an unnamed female character says that she only watches a movie if it satisfies the following requirements:

1. It has to have at least two women in it
2. who talk to each other
3. about something besides a man.
Says Bjurstrm: We want to stick out a little, and feel that we have some influence, although maybe just a little. And we think it is a fun thing to do, with a bit of a wink in the eye, to help the audience watch the movie this way.

Some movies that have passed the Bechdel test are Lars von Triers Melancholia (2011), Jason Reitmans Juno (2007), Lukas Moodyssons recently reviewed We are the Best! (2013) - Review; 'We Are The Best', Ang Lees Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Gabriela Pichlers Eat Sleep Die (2012).

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