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Leaving the film from Sweden, Four Women I felt as though I was fleeing a war zone. With but little reaction from the men in their lives, four women, singly and in unison, in a format not unlike a "home movie" reveal to the general public why I (a marriage counsellor) deplore the likelihood that, given the current freedom to choose, and then un-choose, a partner, feel that marriage as it is presently practised, will within twenty or thirty years become largely an anachronism.

Passion, coupled with the talent needed to put it into play, is fully exhibited by Rachel, in the film from Cuba, The Beauty of the Alhambra. Climbing over the opposition by whatever means necessary, a showgirl from an inconsequential travelling show, Rachel's passion leads her to a coveted position as the top-starred vedette of the nation's showplace, the Alhambra.

The film from Germany, A Map of the Heart, is less clear to me in its depiction of how Katrin acts upon or works out her feeling of desolation. Upon the separation deeply painful on both sides, from her lover and co-worker Jurgen, who will return to his newly-pregnant wife, we the audience only see her dithering as she contemplates her next course of action.