"Female disintegration has long been a vehicle, on and off celluloid, for exploring the societal ills that plague women and become the crosses they unwillingly and unwittingly bear. Wildly worth noting is how two of the films on this list are directed by women.
The monopoly of men within the cinematic landscape of female unraveling is baffling, yet entirely unsurprising given the overall dominance of male voices in the film industry. The preponderance of male takes on these female narratives comes with their patriarchal underpinnings, of course.
-- Be they problematic or boldly feminist, many of these films nevertheless bear a feminist legacy that does not belong to their oft-polarising creators (see: Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Lars von Trier), and form a fascinating look at female vulnerability and psychosis on screen."
