A feminist reading of female desire in Reichenbach’s Lilian M (1975)

Intertwining feminist thought and cinema, this paper search the freshness of women’s desire in Carlos Reichenbach’s film Lilian M (1975), and try to recognize how the filmmaker interacts with the 1970s debates on sexuality and integrates them into the composition of narrative. The film analysis emphasizes the process of interchange between desire, female displeasure and the masquerade, as an auteur critical work, which does not disregard female agency, the domination-exploitation of women, nor the dialogues with voyeurism and the sexual adventures of erotic comedy.