Paris Is actually a lady (1996)
Oh la la! C’est Paris, c’est magnifique! Well it can was indeed secret if you are a boho imaginative girl lifestyle for the city’s Left bank in the early years of your own 20th 100 years. Greta Schiller’s absorbing investigative documentary might have been called Paris Is actually a good Lesbian into amount of Sapphos lifestyle, doing work and you can enjoying together with her. Publishers Collette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, poets H.D. and you may Natalie Clifford Barney, booksellers Sylvia Coastline and you may Adrienne Monnier… the list goes on and on.
Schiller (Before Stonewall, 1984), along with her much time-term collaborator Andrea Weiss, rewrites (her)tale having unseen household video clips and you will a new study which will make a good enchanting flick about it extremely brand new from ladies’ aesthetic communities. Weiss’ Uk queer film history documentary A little bit of Scarlet (1997) is even value a look and certainly will become spotted for the BFI Athlete.
Sure (1996)
It had been the pre-Matrix breakout flick, good titillating Playboy crossbreed thriller mashed right up into the a good lesbian feminist love story. The fresh new Wachowskis do not just have fun with a man gaze, they flip they sunny side up-and score feminist writer Susie Vibrant within the as his or her lesbian ‘sexpert’.
The storyline issues good mobster’s partner losing in love with brand new ex-swindle dyke nearby. Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon positively sizzle while the few to your focus on, Violet and you can Corky, offering audience a number of girl-on-girl action.