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Opening Night, Frameline 43

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Monica
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Actors playing Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolfe in some sort of greenhouse setting.
Virginia is very tall and Vita is very well-dressed. They write books, lots of letters to each other, go to some parties, and have sex a couple times in luxurious settings. Their husbands make noises in the background. Vita moves on to other girlfriends and Virginia writes Orlando. They cry but stay friends. The end.

L. said: I’d give it a seven.
I said: Yeah, it wasn’t bad the way I thought it would be bad.

Jim said: I hated it.
Allen said: If it had been a foreign film with no subtitles I would have liked it a lot.

Lauretta and Susan and I agreed: It had moments.
I said: I liked how the women courted each other openly in front of their husbands, as if they weren’t there.
Susan said: The backlit tears in the final scene disturbed me. Who cries like that?

I said: I liked not having a Q&A.
Lauretta said: And the director’s not here so we can say what we want.

Mary said: What was with the fucking techno music?
I said: They were trying to differentiate themselves from Downton Abbey.
Mary said: Ohhhh.

Then we said: What else are you seeing?

Then we said: We’re going deaf. It’s time to go home.

Posted in Lesbian, The Silver Screen | Tagged BBC-like, film, Frameline, lesbian, Vita and Virginia | 1 Reply

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