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Heard the Mermaids Singing (Canada
1987)
Directed by Patricia Rozema
Featuring Sheila McCarthy, Anne-Marie MacDonald
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Polly, a would-be career woman, gets
a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. She admires
Gabrielle too much for her smart way in business that Polly
herself started taking some pictures, that are severely criticized
by Gabrielle. A drama depicting delicate feelings of ordinary
women.
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Shy and diffident Polly
changes into an aggressive woman by loving Gabrielle. Gabrielle
has a talented girlfriend and makes use of her. Polly was shocked
to know that, and that scene is a little painful. Polly gets
over with broken heart, and how she does evokes sympathy. Directed
by P. Rozema, the director of When Night is Falling
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Hunger (UK 1983)
Directed by Tony Scott
Featuring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
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Miriam and John are vampires. They
came to a disco in New York for lifeblood. It's because her
200-year lover John suddenly ages and wastes away. Miriam casts
her spell upon Sarah, a doctor who researches premature aging.
But Miriam starts feeling toward Sarah. An eccentric horror
story of vampires.
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This neo-Gothic exercise
in style and atmosphere is perhaps most widely known for a
lesbian sex scene involving Miriam and Sarah, played by Catherine
Deneuve
and Susan Sarandon. The special effects in the scene of John (David Bowie)
aging is a horrific spice of this film. The director Tony Scott is
known to "Top
Gun" and "True Romance" challenged in his first feature-length
film.
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