living empanada

1939
real housewives of the transatlantic accent, a good ol fashioned bitch fest, 12 angry men for the girlies.
the thing that’s great here is that while its explicit politics is obviously conservative and misogynistic (women are backbiters who should learn the quiet resilience of staying with their cheating husbands), the actual pleasure of the film lies in the absolute joy of gossiping about other people’s problems, being in the company of women you both ire and resent, and wearing an…