Daughter Rite
In this remarkable and ground breaking film, Citron questions the reliability of her own, and the film’s source materials – home movie footage – to produce a compelling and unsettling work exploring the psychological dynamics of the nuclear family. ‘Daughter Rite’ draws on a subject which, since the film was made in 1978, has become almost a defining theme or generic feature of feminist experimental and independent cinema: the mother-daughter relationship.
‘Daughter Rite’ is an unusual and courageous film in that Citron has broken not only the boundaries of the orthodox form holding most feminist films in check but also the taboos of subject matter restraining most women working within the avant-garde tradition. The result elicits extremely personal reactions on both formal and psychological levels, while in turn raising serious questions regarding the relationship between feminist goals and such elements of popular culture as soap opera and home movies.
– B. Ruby Rich: Film Critic, Chicago Reader; Associate Editor, Jump Cut
Description source: Cinenova paper archive
