What Was The Last Movie You Saw? Welcome Cinephiles.

[dykeumentary]

From the interview Orema posted, looks like the director (a white guy) Haynes thinks he is qualified to direct a lesbian story becuase he has lesbian friends. (???!!!) I can assure him he does not know how white working class lesbians go about their lives, and (also from the interview) neither did Highsmith nor the screenwriter. That is so Insulting. The book is even more guilty becuase it was told more from Therese's' point of view. it is less a story about unexpected love, than a story about a rich/poor power dynamic--- and written by the one on the powerful end of that dynamc -- is just like any Harleqin romance, but with an assumed-to-be aspirational lesbian who conducts her relationships badly. #Snore.

And I hoped a gay man might figure out how to make hot sex scenes at least. Again, insulting.

The book and film are from a salacious semi-autobiographical pulp novel. Super! I wish they had filmed it that way, we might have enjoyed it, like watching an 50s version of the L Word (which some people enjoyed). But an earnest mash-up of that Barbie doll Karen Carpenter story and "far from heaven"? No thanks.
It might win awards because of the topic (the Oscars loooove outsider movies) and because of the star power, but I would not recommend that movie to someone who either is a lesbian or wants to know anything about my life.
(Also I kept expectng Blanchett to start speaking Elvish- she played the role with Galadriel's facial expression. Guess there aren't enough rain-splattered taxi cab windows to shoot through in the woods.)

After re-reading this, it sounds like I had a strong reaction -which can be a positive review. Alas, I was there with a friend so couldn't leave, or woukd have, like I did during "Blue is the most lukewarm color," another dud.

It certainly rmade me re-commit to making my own films. I can't bear to see white people (men) telling People Of Color stories, men telling women's stories, cis actors playing trans roles, and so on, and all this being shown in theaters that aren't accessible.