Episode 14: Two Women
Two Women? In Gold? In this economy??? Believe it or not Jackie and Charlene are back to discuss Joint Venture’s newest release, the Sundance 2025 film Two Women, directed by Chloe Robichaud.
In an insane coincidence, the podcast hosts are also two women, and they dive right back into the snowy landscape of Quebec to discuss sexy movies, feminist reimaginings of iconic films, and all of the films they’ve enjoyed so far this spring.
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:
1:00 Joint Venture
1:26 Two Women In Gold (1970)
2:00 The Sex Comedy: A dead genre
10:10 The amazing song the two women sing to in the bar is ‘Provocante’ by Marjo
19:00 Women were allowed to have their own bank accounts in Canada in 1964.
19:50 Audre Lorde: The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House :)
20:37 The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963, 7 years before the original Two Women in Gold was released.
21:40 The Female Gaze in Two Women: “lingering shots of men’s shoulders, necks and biceps”
23:15 The subculture Charlene is referring to as well the E. Alex Jung Article in which it is discussed can be read here
28:13 Janet Planet: A Beautiful Coming of Age Film about a middle aged woman
30:45 The director Chloe Robichaud said in an AMA that the reason she chose to make this film was first and foremost to work with the writer Catherine Leger
38:14 HIRE MORE WOMEN GUARDS
40:12 “As of 2020, [Two Women In Gold] was still recognized as one of the most commercially successful films in Quebec's cinematic history”
41:54 Poor, poor Maggie Haberman
47:09 Incredible late night croissant making scene in It’s Complicated
51:22 Kristen Stewart somewhat scarily describes making The Chronology of Water
53:16 1980s remakes of French New Wave Films, streaming now!
54:04 Jonathan Glazer directed this!!!!
56:18 The soundtrack of Marc by Sofia rocks
1:01 Insane scene from This Means War where Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon talk at the DVD store
1:02:52 Oh him! The male lead in Sense and Sensibility (2026) is Frank Dillane
1:06:46 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: In Theaters August 2026! (And Jackie is wrong, it isn’t going straight to theaters, it’s premiering at Cannes)
1:08:27 Jackie is wrong again here, Love Lies Bleeding actually premiered at Sundance 2024.
1:08:57 The film that won the Golden Bear that Charlene is describing is Yellow Letters (And Jackie mistakenly referred to it as the Golden Lion; Venice’s top prize).
Full List of Movies, TV Shows, and Plays Referenced in this episode:
Two Women in Gold (1970)
Superbad
American Pie
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
I Love the ‘80s
Heated Rivalry
Skam
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Janet Planet
The Flick
Animal House
Bridesmaids
Bachelor Party
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
The To-Do List
The Hunger Games
Booksmart
Never Have I Ever
Real Women Have Curves
And Just Like That…
Sex and the City
It’s Complicated
Young Adult
Tully
Die My Love
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Chronology of Water
The Ruling Class
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Days and Nights in The Forest
The Music Room
Rabindranath Tagore
The Big City
Pickpocket
Breathless
Nouvelle Vague
It Was Just an Accident
The Zone of Interest
A Perfect Murder
The Testament of Ann Lee
Marc by Sofia
Priscilla
The Beguiled
Four Letter Words
Videoheaven
This Means War
Sense and Sensibility (2026)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
The Other Bennet Sister
Little Women
Harry Potter
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Hacks
Eileen
Love Lies Bleeding
Thank you for listening!
