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The Janes

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Original title: The Janes
Year: 2022
Running time: 101 min.
Country: United States
Director: Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes
Music: Max Avery Lichtenstein
Cinematography: Keith Walker
Cast: Documentary
Producer: Pentimento Productions, HBO Documentary Films. Distributor: HBO Max
Genre: Documentary | Feminism
Synopsis: Police arrested seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds and safe houses, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions calling themselves JANE.

Awards: 2022: Sundance Film Festival: U.S. Documentary Competition

Critics' reviews

"[It] is a standard talking-heads affair, but the participants' vivid recollections make it compelling."

Guy Lodge: Variety
"Lessin, Pildes, and their many subjects eschew cheap emotion in favor of something much more intimate and, ultimately, more honest"

Kate Erbland: IndieWire
"It’s a shame that Lessin and Pildes don’t tell us what these amazing women went on to do after the Collective ended. But they all remain, half a century later, passionate and eloquent and thoughtful and fierce."

Elizabeth Weitzman: The Wrap
"An urgent and thoroughly engaging group portrait (...) The film’s last segment is especially robust and involving"

Sheri Linden: The Hollywood Reporter
"'The Janes' is a peppy history lesson on this heroism, and the movement that inspired it (...) The story of the JANE collective is as vital as it ever was"

Nick Allen: rogerebert.com
"It is an inspiring call to arms as history is poised to repeat itself"

Radhika Menon: Decider
"As much as I love the rebellious spirit of the '60s and the music that came along with it, including these elements occasionally felt like it confused the message. There is a lot to learn from and a lot to love about 'The Janes'"

Sarah Milner: SlashFilm
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