Passes the Bechdel test

A Fantastic Woman

Name: A Fantastic Woman
Released: 2018

2018. Directed by Sebastián Lelio, written by Sebastián Lelio and Gonzalo Maza and Eliseo Altunaga.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
11 women characters. 7 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 12 scenes out of 99.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

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The film

Santiago, Chile. In a dimly lit nightclub, Orlando, the well-off owner of a textile company, locks eyes with hopeful singer Marina, the roughly half-his-age future love of his life. But no one knows what tomorrow has in store for us; after an unforgettable night of passion, Orlando falls gravely ill and dies in the hospital. Now Marina must face the harsh reality; from now on, everything is under intense scrutiny, including Marina's involvement in Orlando's death, their unconventional relationship, and her right to mourn the beloved deceased. But what was Marina's crime?

Released: 02 Feb 2018
Genres: Drama
Rated: R
IMDb: 7.1 / 10
Metascore: 81 / 100
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 38 wins & 46 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Marina 228 lines, woman
Adriana 38 lines, woman
Sonia 37 lines, woman
Gabo 29 lines, man
Bruno 27 lines, man
Orlando 25 lines, man
Doctor 21 lines, man
Wanda 21 lines, woman
Gaston 18 lines, man
Alessandra 13 lines, woman

Full cast, 30 people

Daniela Vega as Marina Vidal
Francisco Reyes as Orlando
Luis Gnecco as Gabo
Aline Küppenheim as Sonia
Nicolás Saavedra as Bruno
Amparo Noguera as Adriana
Néstor Cantillana as Gaston
Alejandro Goic as Doctor
Antonia Zegers as Alessandra
Marcial Tagle as Orlando's older relative
Cristián Chaparro as Masseur
Diana Cassis as Receptionist
Eduardo Paxeco as Paramedic
Roberto Farías as SML Medic
Pablo Cerda as Executive
José Antonio Raffo as Guardia
Erto Pantoja as Sergeant
Trinidad González as Wanda
Sergio Hernández as Singing teacher
Paola Lattus as Nurse
Loreto Leonvendagar as Waitress
Fabiola Zamora as Cashier
Bárbara Mundt as Woman in the chapel
Pablo Greene as Orlando's younger relative
Moisés Angulo as Man at the discotheque
Hugo Moraga as Restaurant customer
Verónica García-Huidobro as Sauna Recepcionist
Senén Selim as Man in the Taxi
Paulina Hunt as Chapel Clerk
Francisco González Hermosilla as CInerary Operator

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 1% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 99

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 3	0	0
4 to 6	0	2
7 to 9	2	3
10 to 12	14	13
13 to 15	5	3
16 to 18	24	13
19 to 21	25	17
22 to 24	23	8
25 to 27	15	0
28 to 30	66	1
31 to 33	10	0
34 to 36	17	22
37 to 39	6	0
40 to 42	30	4
43 to 45	35	0
46 to 48	7	14
49 to 51	7	7
52 to 54	7	10
55 to 57	22	11
58 to 60	5	3
61 to 63	12	18
64 to 66	0	0
67 to 69	1	1
70 to 72	12	6
73 to 75	1	0
76 to 78	4	6
79 to 81	4	0
82 to 84	1	0
85 to 87	7	7
88 to 90	4	0
91 to 93	2	0
94 to 96	1	0
97 to 99	0	0

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

LOW-RANKING POLICE OFFICER: Miss Marina Vidal? MARINA: Yes, what is it?

LOW-RANKING POLICE OFFICER: Sargent CHIEF POLICE OFFICER: Thank you LOW-RANKING POLICE OFFICER: Excuse me MARINA: You didn’t have to treat me like a criminal.

MARINA: Thanks. CHIEF POLICE OFFICER: Your phone number, please. MARINA: Yes... 98149575.

MARINA: Yes, right away. ALESSANDRA: You didn’t want to come, and I was just calling you to ask if you could take the night shift. Crap. MARINA: I didn’t get to check my phone, Alessandra. The celebration was pretty intense. ALESSANDRA: But you came. I appreciate that. Do you need anything?

MARINA: Right away. ALESSANDRA: Marina, someone’s looking for you outside. MARINA: Who? ALESSANDRA: I Don’t know.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 69 are women's.

369 lines from women, 169 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

11 women and 15 men in the cast. 7 women and 7 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 5 of 546. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 5 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 67% of the words (2,750), men 33% (1,326). Women have 69% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Run the other way, for men, the film scores 2 out of 3.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

1 of the 10 people in these jobs is a woman. Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Sebastián Lelio (man)
Written by: Sebastián Lelio (man), Gonzalo Maza (man)
Produced by: Juan de Dios Larraín (man), Pablo Larraín (man), Gonzalo Maza (man)
Shot by: Benjamín Echazarreta (man)
Edited by: Soledad Salfate (woman)
Music by: Matthew Herbert (man)
Costumes by: Muriel Parra (gender not listed)