Two sisters, Lucy and Martha, regularly protest capital punishment at state executions. Lucy (Ellen Page) meets Mercy (Kate Mara) attending that day’s execution in support of lethal injection. Despite their moral differences, they feel an obvious connection to one another. Ellen Page, playing 10 years younger, is twentysomething anti-execution activist Lucy Morrow, whose father is…
In the distance there is light by Harper Bliss
“In the distance there is light” by Harper Bliss stunned me, especially when listening to the audiobook narrated by Charlotte North, which made me love it even more. It took me two days to read and two weeks to sit down and write this review as the book really deserves it. It’s a first person…
Listen by Kris Bryant
“Listen” by Kris Bryant is not the typical rock star and fan romance, and as Kris Bryant herself said, this is a story about anxiety and about the dreams of youngsters becoming musical prodigies, but somehow life wasn’t kind to them and they had to choose another path in life. In fact, this is Jillian…
More Beautiful For Having Been Broken ~ a Nicole Conn movie
After a long wait and much anticipation, multiple-Award winning filmmaker, Nicole Conn is world premiering her brand new film, “More Beautiful For Having Been Broken” at Frameline. With this film Nicole Conn wants to show the beauty that comes from the broken. A semi-autobiographical film that is very personal to Conn. In fact, It was her producer, Lissa…
Annie on my mind by Nancy Garden- a review
“Annie on my mind” by Nancy Garden was published in 1982 and it’s a classic of contemporary lesbian literature. And, furthermore, a jewel of a storyline in female teenagers coming out lesbian literature with a happy ending. The storyline features Liza (Eliza Winthrop) and Annie, two teenage girls who meet at the Art Museum and…
Portrait d’une jeune fille en feu\Portrait of a lady on fire presented on Cannes 2019 lesbian film by Céline Sciamma
“Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day and secretly paints her at night. Intimacy and attraction grow between…
For the love of a woman by S. Anne Gardner
“For the love of a woman” by S. Anne Gardner is a beautiful opposites attract lesbian romance involving powerful ice queen Raisa Andieta and Carolyn Stenbeck, a married woman who also has a son and a daughter. They live in Caracas, Venezuela where politics and social matters are as volatile as Raisa’s oil business. The…
The Glass Room 2019
The Glass Room, a film based on Simon Mawer’s best-selling novel, the main character of which is Brno’s iconic Villa Tugendhat. In Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s a newly-built house – a modernist masterpiece with a glass-walled room – is home to Liesel Landauer (Hanna Alstrom) and her industrialist husband Viktor (Claes Bang). Liesel’s closest…
Where love is illegal ~ Lidia / Italy
“This is me and my girlfriend. We are 20 and we live in Milan, where we study at university. Our family and friends support us, it wasn’t always that easy, but now it’s slowing becoming something normal. We aren’t afraid to show the world our love, but sometimes it’s not that easy. We receive bad…
The sex therapist next door by Meghan O’Brien ~ a review
“The sex therapist next door” by Meghan O’Brien it’s an unusual age gap romance and the best lesbian erotica I have ever read so far. It is clearly that the youngest character in the book, Jude, will have an amazing evolution and her road to adulthood and self-knowledge will be sprinkled with unearthly sexual…
Spring’s Wake by Aurora Rey
“Spring’s Wake” by Aurora Rey is a beautiful age gap romance, skillfully penned with all the details that matter: passion, fear of being hurt, opposites attract, love, distance and friendship. This is the third story in Aurora Rey’s Cape End romance series and feature the passionate romance between Nora and Will, who are amazing characters,…
Elisa & Marcela ~ lez movie 2019
Isabel Coixet’s Netflix drama is a relentlessly tasteful affair Dir/scr: Isabel Coixet. Spain. 2019. 118 mins The story of what was arguably Spain’s first gay marriage is turned into a relentlessly pretty melodrama in Isabel Coixet’s latest feature. Shot in black and white, the overlong drama could conceivably pass for edgy with the mass audience…
Inkmarksonemptydreams 