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 Desert
Hearts (US 1985)
Directed by Donna Deitch
Featuring Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau
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It is 1950s Nevada, Rino, and Professor Vivian
Bell arrives to get a divorce. There she stayed at the ranch
Frances manages and met Cay Rivvers, the ranchowner's daughter,
who works at casino and strives to be a sculptor. The two gradually
becomes close each other.
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Cay is an open and self-assured lesbian. It is
disturbing to see Cay's stepmother Frances rejects her sexuality
and gets in the way of her romance. The scene that Cay and Vivian
first spend the night together is very expressive. An honorable
mention of lesbian movie but unscreened at theaters in Japan.
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for the Moon (US 1987)
Directed by Jill Godmilow
Featuring Linda Bassett, Linda Hunt
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A story of a few months at cottage in south France
in the life of Gertrude Stein and his secretary Alice B. Toklas,
and their relationship with young artists. Sprinkling scene
setting and dialogues from the novel with fiction, their calm
life is recalled.
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Gertrude Stein is a radical lesbian
writer known with Q.E.D. and her abstract style. She is also
known to having lesbian friendship with Alice with whom she
spent her whole life. It is heartwarming to see their relationship,
difficult Stein and generous Alice full of love and trust to
Stein. Stein was famous at salons in Paris for being a patron
of young artists such as Picasso and Hemingway.
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