Linda's Film on Menstruation (1974)

★★★★★ · But it is hilarious! · mouffettefatale · 2011-04-19

The sexual repression of America began with films like this. Parents were too embarrassed to speak frankly to their children and left it to the schools and films like this.

★★★★ · Too funny but significant too · ghostmadl · 2013-08-02

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I got mine 5 years after this was made and I understand what the film maker was trying to do. Empower women and help them understand that it isn't a bad thing or anything to be ashamed of. What I thought was hilarious was that she told her boyfriend. And he was obsessed about it.

★★★★ · Ahead of its time · Menucius · 2010-08-13

This liberating feminist celebration of female autonomy dared to break one of the final taboos, the mystique of menstruation (a word almost never spoken during this era). Linda's confident self-exploration and mastery of her menses is contrasted dramatically with the ignorance of her boyfriend, humiliatingly disempowered by his lack of knowledge and explicitly subordinated to Linda's superior understanding. Male authority figures are lampooned as stuffy and out of date (a man with a white suit and enormous bow tie), or sinister but impotent (a man with a phallic hat and mustache). In a nod to…

★★★★ · Really very good. · rasputin2 · 2011-06-22

This film screams the early 70's, 'tis true, but beyond that, it's really an excellent primer to show teens, and was a much fresher and breezier-toned film than the B&W Coronets which a generation of teens before it had to sit through. Clever, funny, enlightened... 1970's kids were lucky to be the beneficiary of this novel and shame-free video.

★★★ · So bad it's...still bad, and funny as hell · Vic Demise · 2011-01-12

I'm certain, that at the time of it's release (does one actually "release" such a film, or "inflict"?) this film may have really helped some young men and women feel more comfortable with this subject, but without question, it certainly had to have had the opposite effect on some as well. Partly due to the look of the film, then the just awful acting, the unattractive cast( Sorry, but the boyfriend looks like a pimply-faced Sylvester Stallone in his awkward phase- and "Linda" makes Sally Struthers look like a beauty queen!!) and let's not forget the subject matter itself. Yes, films on this…

★★★ · Suggestion · rabid47 · 2011-06-21

Maybe this could be bundled with 'The Bloody Pit of Horror'....