Between Summer and Fall is above average, but not an all-time great. I appreciate its dialogue and character work, but it doesn’t stand out enough from this crowded subgenre of similarly plotted and shot movies. 6.1/10
Tag: <span>genre: romance</span>
If you haven’t seen an abundance of women self-actualizes and also kisses a woman films, sure, you might as well see A Room of My Own. If you’ve already seen enough where that plot sounds superfluous to you, I cannot say that A Room of My Own is a film to seek out on its individual merits. 5.8/10
I try not to stereotype nations or national cinema, but this is one of the most classically French movies of all time. All comes second to romantic and sexual passion in Looking For Cheyenne. 5.7/10
I expected Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy to be far more sleazy than it was. Instead, the film is fairly underplayed. I’ll be honest, I found myself missing some of the sleaze. 5.5/10
Gondola not only celebrates the medium of film with its beautiful visuals but also gives me one of the cutest romances I’ve seen in quite some time. And it accomplishes both these things with nearly zero dialogue. 7.1/10
Sure, the script could’ve used another draft and the acting isn’t gonna win anyone an Oscar. But this is such a heartwarming, wonderfully ordinary romance that shows queer and trans joy at any age. 5.9/10
Stroking an Animal is only 70 minutes long. And it fills those 70 minutes with two things: attempts at artsy cinematography (to varying levels of success) and sexy young people doing sexy things like having sex. Where’s the story? Where’s the character? Not in Stroking an Animal, that’s for sure. 2.4/10
This is harmless, indulgent wish fulfillment that puts a lesbian relationship as something that spans multiple universes and timelines . I so badly want to share in that joy. But this is not a well-executed project on almost any level. 4.7/10
This is a great little time capsule of 90s lesbian culture both in its small scale production and its larger scale optimism about lesbians breaking through into the mainstream and being largely normalized. 6.0/10
Let’s Meet Halfway is a technically proficient small indie that does the damnedest with what little it had to work with. I’m going for forget all about it by the end of this week. 5.4/10