Top Girl oder la déformation professionnelle

“Snapshots from the brittle contemporary biography of a working woman, part 2: Helena at work, decked out in latex, leather, and fishnet stockings, batting her eyelashes and brandishing sex toys. Male clients with various sexual predilections. A casting call where she’s supposed to play an ‘uncontrollably horny’ woman. A post-feminist lecture on the body, getting old and cosmetic surgery. And repeatedly, sex as a performance, relationships of purely economic status. Body discourses.” (Birgit Kohler) “The second part of Tatjana Turanskyj's trilogy about women and work is about the complex body and gender politics in the 21st century (with Drifter (2010) as its first part). Turanskyj represented not only an explicitly feminist position in her films but was, among other things an activist and co-founder of Pro Quote Film in Germany. Her trilogy about women and work could not be completed. Turanskyj died in 2021, so TOP GIRL OR LA DEFORMATION PROFESSIONELLE remains her last feature film.” (Clarissa Thieme)