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- 2001
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 5 m
- 2001
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 5 m
Summary A documentary exploration of lesbian images from 1896 until 1969.
Directed By: Barbara Hammer
- 2001
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 5 m
- 2001
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 5 m
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Summary A documentary exploration of lesbian images from 1896 until 1969.
Directed By: Barbara Hammer
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
41
14% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Offers radical sexual politics in a jester's surprise package of impudent humor and Situationist-style found-footage monkeyshines.
Neither a conventional documentary nor a work of complete fiction, Hammer's film constructs a secret history, part imagination and part reality that is both revealing and slyly entertaining.
The novelty of watching vintage lesbian footage just for the sake of watching eventually wears off. This underscores the idea that there is such a concept as too much of a good thing.
A collage without context.
Unfortunately the clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring.
The result is an intermittently instructive and amusing jumble that might have been seen as daring and "transgressive" in both form and content if it had been released, say, three decades ago.
Hammer betrays a tiresome attachment to cross-cutting ladyporn with antiquated educational filmstrips, to no real end but snarky giggles.
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Production Company
Barbara Hammer Productions
Release Date Oct 26, 2001
Duration 1 h 5 m
Rating Not Rated
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