“Long hours of loneliness Between me and the sea Losing emotion Finding devotion Should I dress in white and search the sea As I always wished to be – one with the waves Ocean Soul” Nightwish – Ocean Soul “Fare thee well, little broken heart Downcast eyes, lifetime loneliness Whatever walks in my heart will…
Tell it to the bees movie 2018
Tell it to the bees is a movie inspired by the same name book by British author Fiona Shaw. Tell it to the Bees draws you into its world, a rich world of secrets and passion, a child’s world, and an adult’s world, Fiona Shaw creates brilliant characters who stay with you long after the book…
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
“We can be an army of two. We can be Plato’s perfect army: lovers, who will never behave dishonorably in each other’s sight, and invincible. Let the world either kill us or grow accustomed to us; here we stand.” Alma Routsong alias Isabel Miller, her penname, referencing her mother’s maiden name and an anagram…
Battle of the Sexes movie 2017- based on the true story tennis match between women’s No 1 – Billie Jean King and fifty something ex-champ and self-proclaimed “male chauvinist pig” Bobby Riggs
“The Battle of the Sexes” is a biographical sports comedy drama based on the true story tennis match of 1973 in a packed Houston Astrodome. It stars Emma Stone and Steve Carell, respectively women’s No 1 Billie Jean King and fiftysomething ex-champ and self-proclaimed “male chauvinist pig” Bobby Riggs – fighting to prove that men…
The Space Between Our Hearts by Kat Evans
The write is smooth and silky as a caress, not having the roughness of a detective story. The two main characters are Taylor Ross and Stephanie Scruggs. Taylor Ross is the soft half of the whole “love-being” the author wanted to create. She holds many features I love, like her innocence regarding people’s intentions, her…
Extraordinary women – Sophia Yakovlevna Parnokh – Russia’s Sapho
“Dedicated to N.P.P. I’m drunk on your wild caresses, You’ve driven me crazy for you… Just tell me I’ve only been dreaming So I can believe that it’s true. No, you want to torment me forever – Why shouldn’t you play and have fun; And smiling, you answer, carefree, “We won’t do again what…
Women Who Kill – the queer movie
“Do people always fall in love with things they can’t have?’ ‘Always,’ Carol said, smiling, too.” ― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt. ============================================== Women Who Kill sounds like a bad documentary on Netflix…and in some ways it’s meant to sound that way. But I’ll get to that. To start with, the film is genre…
Frieda Belinfante – but I was a girl
This us the story of Frieda Belinfante (1904-1995), a remarkable woman who was the first female conductor to have her own symphony orchestra in Holland and later in Orange County, United States. Controversial, because of her homosexuality she shows a remarkably strong and positive will in everything she does. Born in a family of musicians…
If you could be mine by Sara Farizan
What can a lesbian young girl do in Iran ? How can she live, love and make a living without marring? Sahar is 17 years old, her mother dies and she lives with her depressed father and above all, she is in love with her best friend, who happens to be a girl :…
Where love is illegal – ANGELA / USA
Angela’s story “When I was growing up my parents fought a lot so I spent a lot of time at my best friend’s house. Her family was very evangelical and I remember her dad coming into the room and telling us it was ‘not right and not normal’ for us to be sleeping so close…
Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
“When did you last see your mother? Someone asked me. Someone who was walking with me in the city. I didn’t want to tell her; I thought in this city, a past was precisely that. Past. Why do I have to remember? In the old world, anyone could be a new creation, the past was…
Disobedience -2018- the new les movie – where Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams impress in a beautiful & dramatic love story
The subject of the movie it’s not one that I expected : a mixed feelings and thoughtful characters drama about a woman returning home to the Orthodox Jewish community of north London – I love the mystery around Ronit leaving London for New York, the strengths and weaknesses of Ronit and Estie’s friendship and…
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