"Your body no longer belongs to you," is one statement, repeated several times and in multiple iterations by numerous actresses in Kristy Guevara-Flanagan's illuminating documentary, "Body Parts." This film, which is receiving its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, astutely analyzes how women are treated and presented in Hollywood films and television.
Guevara-Flanagan traces the way women had power in front of and behind the camera as far back as the 1920s and 1930s — until the Hays Code changed the rules. In the 1960s, women went from "romance without sex" to "sex without romance," as a series of films broke down barriers for female sex and nudity on screen. Jane Fonda, who is interviewed in the documentary, describes playing prim ingenues in the 1950s and 1960s and then doing her famous striptease over the opening credits in "Barbarella," a film directed by her then-husband, Roger Vadim.
