GB 1979 | Director, Script, Editor, Production: Sally Potter | Cast: Colette Laffont, Rose English, Soundy Gacon, Vincent Meehan | b/w | 16mm | 34 min | english OV | women Make Movies / Adventure Pictures

Sally Potter's film THRILLER was released in 1980. Her reinterpretation of Puccini's opera "La Bohème" has since become a classic of feminist film theory. Exemplary for the deconstruction of the Hollywood film, THRILLER turns the conventional feature film role of the woman as a romantic victim on its head. Mimi, the heroine of the opera and a seamstress who must die before the curtain falls, decides to investigate the reasons for her death. In doing so, she also begins to explore the rift that separated her from the opera's other female character, "bad girl" Musetta. THRILLER is as rich in sounds and images as it is theoretically compelling, providing the audience with a long-awaited recognition of their version of the story.

“Thriller becomes an exemplary sign of how pleasurable and how illuminating such a new feminist art might be” (B. Ruby Rich, 1980)