pregnancy on film

When you're trying to conceive, it seems like everything around you is suddenly about being pregnant and having babies. All of a sudden, you notice that almost every movie you watch features at least one pregnant woman. I recently watched Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, an oddly delightful and beautiful 1964 film about a young woman, played by Catherine Deneuve, who gets pregnant by her boyfriend right before he's drafted into military service. And in a much newer film, Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, Peter's wife Alice is pregnant, although we see her only once toward the end of the film. One of my favorite cases of pregnancy on film is another film by Anderson that features a pregnant Cate Blanchett as Jane Winslett-Richardson in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Blanchett's pregnant belly is very convincing, of course, because it's real. But there's something about her overall performance, beyond the big belly - the attempt to swear less, the long braid, the tan and yellow outfits - that I find really endearing and evocative of baby lust.