Quote:
"In [Brigitte] Berman's film [Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got], we see the standard ingredients of a showbiz success story from a questioning female perspective. Artie Shaw's professional dilemma—that the public wanted him to turn out swing tunes for jitterbugs while he, in fact, wanted to be a more adventuresome musical artist—is an issue that Berman, as a woman in a society that rewards certain kinds of compliant female behavior and punishes independence, handles with great insight and obvious sympathy. Again we find that a female perspective is enriching and that it leads to the creation of a distinctive kind of film in treating 'male problems.'"
-- John Hofsess

Source:
Hofsess, John. "Reel stuff: A guide to the new body of films and directors who forego the usual female sex-role stereotypes, and portray women as they really are." Homemaker's Magazine, vol. 20, November 1985. (p. 22)