In November a team led by Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze - Makuch devised the Planetary Habitability Index, or PHI, a
scoring system for distant worlds that measures their suitability for any kind of life, not
merely life as we
know it.
The film is not
merely about the strictures of gender through the ages, but also an essay on the nature of evolution (the Godardian final shot even switches from film to video) and it
scores points through
knowing casting (Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I!)