SOURCE: A review of Girl 6, in Sight and Sound, June, 1996, pp. 43-4.

In the following review, Felperin analyzes Lee's Girl 6 as a response to criticism of Lee's treatment of female characters and in terms of its relationship to his earlier film She's Gotta Have It.

New York City. The present. A young actress goes for an audition with a famous director, but when he insists she take her top off, she walks out, upset and humiliated. Her agent is furious with her, but her upstairs neighbour, Jimmy, offers sympathy. Fed up with low-paying jobs, she speaks to a woman who runs a 'phone-sex' business, but because she hasn't got her own line she has to look elsewhere for work. Eventually, she lands a job doing phone sex at an office-based company, where she is trained by supervisor Lil, introduced to her co-workers and renamed Girl 6.

Before long, Girl...