Before Girls, cult classic Girlfriends captured young women's hopes, fears and friendships
Author of a new pop culture memoir Brodie Lancaster on the 1978 feminist film she wishes she’d discovered sooner
When I emerged from the cinema and stood on the street after seeing Girlfriends, I was furious. The 1978 independent film by Claudia Weill had screened as part of the 2016 Melbourne film festival’s Gaining Ground program – a curated selection of films from a stable of female film-makers in the 70s and 80s – and it latched so tightly and immediately on to my brain and heart and guts that I was angry it took until I was 26 years old to see it.
All I’d known going into the dark cinema was that the film had earned another
