IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES IS THE WINNER

My poll 49 ended with 11 votes. Wow! Thanks to everyone who participated in it. Here is the result:
THESE FILMS PORTRAY INTERESTING FEMALE CHARACTERS WITH DESIRE. WHICH FILMS DO YOU LIKE?

1.IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (1976, Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
It got 6 votes, or 54%.

2.BLISSFULLY YOURS (2002, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
It got 5 votes, or 45%.

3.SEX AND THE CITY (1998-2004, USA, TV series)
It got 4 votes, or 36 %.

4. FOREVER YOURS (CHUA FAR DIN SALAI) (1955, Tawee na Bangchang, Thailand)
+A GOOD LAWYER’S WIFE (2003, Im Sang-soo, South Korea)
+JE TU IL ELLE (1974, Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
+UNPRONOUNCABLE IN THE LINGUISTIC IMPERIALISM OF YOURS (2008, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Thailand)
Each of them got 3 votes, or 27 %.

8. AN AUTUMN TALE (1998, Eric Rohmer, France)
+FRIDAY NIGHT (2002, Claire Denis, France)
+JUNO (2007, Jason Reitman, USA)
+LOST IN EMOTION (ความรู้สึกที่หายไป) (2007, Soraya Duangtape, Thailand)
+A MOMENT IN JUNE (2008, O Nathapon, Thailand)
Each of them got 2 votes, or 18 %.

13.LES AUTRES FILLES (2000, Caroline Vignal, France)
+BEWARE OF MY LOVE (1998, Jeanne Labrune, France)
+BLIND (ธรรมดาสู่สามัญ) (2008, Kanjana Akasin, Thailand)
+GETTING MY BROTHER LAID (2001, Sven Taddicken, Germany)
+THE LAST MISTRESS (2007, Catherine Breillat, France)
+WINGS OF BLUE ANGELS (2007, Tongpong Chantarangkul, Thailand)
Each of them got 1 vote, or 9 %.

19.A HELL OF A DAY (2001, Marion Vernoux, France)
+MOTHER (1963, Kaneto Shindo, Japan)
Each of them got 0 vote.

--My own vote is for LES AUTRES FILLES, AN AUTUMN TALE, BEWARE OF MY LOVE, FOREVER YOURS (CHUA FAR DIN SALAI), GETTING MY BROTHER LAID, IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, JE TU IL ELLE, LOST IN EMOTION, SEX AND THE CITY, and UNPRONOUNCABLE IN THE LINGUISTIC IMPERIALISM OF YOURS.

--I’m glad that IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES is the winner. I like some women in Oshima’s films, especially the two leading characters in VIOLENCE AT NOON.

--Though I like films with sexually expressive female characters like Samantha in SEX AND THE CITY, films which I worship are usually films with a female character who abandons her husband/lover, such as LE BLEU DES VILLES (1999, Stephane Brize), THE GREATEST THING (2001,Thomas Robsahm), SHIRLEY VALENTINE, and VALERIE FLAKE.

--I also like some films in which bad girls win, though the word “bad girls” here doesn’t necessarily mean “villainesses”, but means “female characters who behave very differently from most heroines”. The examples include the only victim who can escape from the serial killers in MUANG NAI MORK (1978, Permpol Choei-arun). This lone surviving victim is a very promiscuous woman. In PLEARNG PRANANG, a period Thai TV-series about the wars between Burmese queens, some virtuous queens are murdered, while the surviving queens are very bad. Many films by Claude Chabrol seem to obey this logic. The surviving women in LES BONNES FEMMES, COP AU VIN, and LA CEREMONIE seem to behave more badly than the murdered women in the same films. The reason why I like films like this is not because I believe in evil, but because I’m very sick and tired with the narrow-mindedness and the extreme morality in other films.

Opening Title of PLEARNG PRANANG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntgMHb7-YEs

--Another female character with desire that I like very much is the heroine in THE LOVERS (1958, Louis Malle). Jesse just wrote about this film here:
http://memoriesofthefuture.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/154/