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| | Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Girls on Film |
 | | "Chick flick" is, of course, the latter-day term for the "woman's film", that staple of 30s and 40s studio film-making in which women suffered nobly and endured, and their problems, given short shrift in other, male-oriented genres, moved front and centre with a vengeance. |
 | | Oscar Levant famously called the woman's film a movie in which a wife commits adultery all through the picture and in the end is asked by her husband to forgive him - an apt description of that classic and most beloved weeper, Brief Encounter. |
 | | In fact, all three of the film's women are strong-minded, vivid, and even independent in very different ways according to the vocabulary and possibilities of their times, and their own particular dispositions. |
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