Mona Fastvold’s exquisite skills as a director are on display in this movie which fits most of the lesbian film tropes - 19th century, isolation, white straight cis actresses, lots of longing and period costumes. “Yet as AWOL asserts, when you dare to comment, sometimes it frees up room for beauty to unfurl.” All About EĪn Australian film that dares to ask, “Can E keep the money, conquer her demons, AND get the girl?” More importantly: why are there so many men going through a sort of random plot about men who are mad at other men instead of it being a long and romantic meditation on the face of Mandahla Rose?!!? Someone paint her picture!! Anchor and HopeĮva and Kat have lesbian names and live on a boat until Eva decides she wants to have a baby, but Kat is like, “what why I love our bohemian lifestyle” and then Kat’s BFF comes to visit they’re like, maybe he could be the father? There’s a sex scene in the first ten minutes. “Talking about class can be ugly,” wrote Sarah Fonseca in her glowing review of AWOL, a love story set in a rarely-portrayed rural landscape and confronts new conversations issues of class, race and gender. I asked Drew if this movie was good and she said “no, but it wasn’t bad. We all love Vita and Virginia and also, they loved each other. Meanwhile I am drawn into another room where anything but this film is playing. The story of a mother/pastor’s wife and a well-known lesbian writer who cross paths and are instantly drawn to one another. Plus, our very own Ro White is in it! Elena Undone
What’s especially refreshing about this one is that there’s no hand-wringing from anyone about their sexuality and every woman with a major part comes away from their summer together more content and connected. It hits all your coming-of-age hotspots about first queer love and sexual discovery. Heather called this the most hopeful queer film of 2017, and it made plenty of mainstream magazines’ best-of lists too.
It sneaks right up on you and barrels into your heart.” Princess Cyd
“But you know what, who cares? When was the last time a motion picture centered itself on the premise that a teenage, mixed race, black lesbian is worthy of support and love from everyone surrounding her? It’s simple and tender and because of those things it’s groundbreaking. It’s light, perhaps even fluffy, and yes a bit twee,” wrote Carmen. This indie summer comedy features “effortlessly cool” Kiersey Clemons as Sam, enjoying her last summer at home making music with her cool Dad and, of course, falling for Rose (Sasha Lane). #81 on our Best Lesbian Movies of All Time List “The stakes become clear, the conflict is heartbreaking, and gosh is the resolution ever earned.” Hearts Beat Loud “Every joke lands, even a running character gag that could have easily become grating in less skilled hands,” writes Heather Hogan. Everybody really enjoyed this film, produced by Olivia Wilde, about two best friends, Molly (played by queer actress Bernie Feldstein and Amy (lesbian) who discover that the kids who devoted themselves to studying throughout high school only to discover that the kids who also had social lives ALSO got into exclusive colleges and so they decide to get all of their socializing in on one night. “Have you seen Booksmart?” Is a question a lot of lesbians were asking each other last summer. “Now we’re in an underwater world of existential reeling.” “This film has so much potential to be, if not fun, at least not an unending pit of despair,” Erin wrote of it at the precise moment it became clear it would remain an unending put of despair. It’s not great, this film about a straight girl who stays at a lesbian beach resort and ends up getting seduced by the resident Lothario. Queen Kristina of Sweden, who was crowned at the age of six, will not abide the conservative ideals of her culture, especially when she falls in love with a woman. “But every once in a while there is a work of art so specific, so complex, so new in its oldness and old in its newness, that it moves the craft, our craft, to another level of seeing.” The Girl King The invention of lesbian cinema is a project as old as cinema itself,” wrote Drew Gregory in her review. You might be wondering, “What other best lesbian movies are on Hulu? I bet some of the best lesbian movies are all over Hulu!” More specifically: “Where can I see two women stare longingly into each other’s eyeballs?” Well good news! we have you covered.