A clip is shown while the host
is introducing the film's theme:
A mother and her daughter. Diane Keaton
plays Anna who is divorced and tries to bring up her daughter in a natural
way. When she gets to know Leo she discovers a passion she's never had with
her husband. Molly, her daughter should grow up without being ashamed of her
sexuality. When she tells Anna's former husband that she has seen Leo naked,
her ex-husband files a lawsuit against her.
Director Nimoy: "She's not a heroine who fights the system for a good cause.
In the opposite. She must find a possibility to live with it... What the
mother and her friend experience in this film is the experience of people
who are living with the moral attitudes of the sixties, but who are living in
the eighties. They are confronted with the mentality and the legal system of
the eighties. In this film the jury represents the society of today. And
something which was more acceptable in the sixties is judged now."
"I think the films says: We are
going back more into tradition. We have become more careful when it comes to
directness and openness. It is about whether we are ready to accept motherhood and
sexuality in the same person. If a couple gets divorced and the father and husband
moves out and the child stays with the mother, we accept that this man will be
sexually active further on. We have a vague image of the woman as the mother only.
We don't see her as a being with her own sexuality. This is why it is a very
important theme the film is talking about."