Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman's 1992 documentary paints a tender, carefully considered portrait of lesbian life.
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I'll never forget that warm fall night in 1992 when I was attending premieres at Image+Nation, Montreal's queer film festival. The packed house was knocked out by the sheer brilliance, beauty and audacity of, a new feature-length documentary by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman.After exhaustive research, Fernie and Weissman interviewed several older lesbians about their experiences growing up in various parts of Canada.
But the film is full of amazing triumphs, too, including reconciliations between friends and family members who got over their homophobia and beautiful stories of parenting. The stereotype of the Humourless Feminist is forever shattered by brilliant one-liners throughout: "I've always said that the world should be run by post-menopausal women," one lesbian argues.
Anchoring the interviews is Ann Bannon, a lesbian author who wrote pulp fiction in the '50s, an era when lesbianism was still a love that dare not speak its name. She became famous as an author who wrote lesbian pulp that actually imagined happy endings for its characters — something that inspired the film's dramatic segments.was also formally innovative: it's a hybrid documentary.
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