university leicester. she has done extensive research on the treatment of women in film.bers. jessica, how was it for you?” jessica, how was it for you? i think the reason i am here is that i wrote a scathing review of lars von trier‘s the house that jack built and it was a film i absolutely loathed and i think one of the issues that we are bringing up here issues that we are bringing up here is about the violence against women, but i think i should also say that i loathed the film from the bottom of my soul, not just loathed the film from the bottom of my soul, notjust because i am a woman andi my soul, notjust because i am a woman and i didn't like seeing those a cts woman and i didn't like seeing those acts of violence, but because i'm a film critic and it's a very bad film. did you walk out? i did not walk out. i'm a critic so i can't. you stayed till the end. as you saw people getting up to leave, did it shock you or not? it's unusual because i was at the gala premiere and it's unusual for people in that situation to walk out. in fact, at the very beginning of the fi