In honor of Delight Month, we’ve put collectively a listing of the perfect WLW movies we might actually watch over and over, and no, Blue Is The Warmest Color did not make the reduce.
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If Rachel Weiss’ hieroglyphic studying librarian from The Mummy wasn’t part of your sexual awakening, the place even had been you in 1999? So getting her in a lesbian drama, alongside the queen of romance, and our different favourite Rachel, McAdams, no much less, was all the pieces we might have hoped for and extra. The story of those two girls navigating their relationship with an Orthodox Jewish group, primarily based on the novel of the identical title by Naomi Alderman, will shock you with it’s unconventional ending.
Dylan Gelula perfected the angsty teen position as Xanthippe Voorhees on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, however she actually delivers the full-spectrum of adolescent emotion alongside Deadpool‘s Brianna Hildebrand on this movie that received the ‘Better of NEXT’ award on the 2016 Sundance Movie Competition. Whereas tackling heavier subjects like rape, sexual assault, and homophobia, it additionally captures the lighter moments of falling in love for the primary time, and touts a killer soundtrack that can positively enhance your newest playlist.
An incredible reimagining of Sarah Water’s 2002 novel Fingersmith set in Japanese-occupied Korea as a substitute of Victorian England, directed, co-written and co-produced by Oldboy‘s Park Chan-Wook, this movie is a haunting masterpiece you’ll positively find yourself rewatching a number of instances. Telling the story of Korean pickpocket Sook-hee who’s employed by con man, Rely Fujiwara, to assist him seduce Japanese heiress, Woman Hideko, who lives along with her Uncle Kouzuki, in an property with a darkish secret, The Handmaiden‘s twists and turns and lovely visuals will hold you on the sting of your seat till the credit position.
The winner of the 2019 Cannes Movie Competition Queer Palm award, written and directed by Céline Sciamma, made us all want we had paid higher consideration in French class. The beautiful areas and costumes, and sensible performances by leads Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel transported us to 18th century coastal France and gave us a heartbreaking love story we’d always remember. Telling the story of painter Marianne who’s employed to create a portrait of aristocratic Héloïse for her Milanese future husband, it reinforces the concept that the depth of a relationship just isn’t equal to it’s period.
The quintessential lesbian rom-com starring Coyote Ugly’s Piper Perabo and Sport of Thrones‘ Lena Headey is the lovable British, early 2000’s movie you’ll be able to actually watch at any time with out worrying concerning the emotional devastation queer movies can are inclined to ship. Half comedy of errors, half brilliantly written love story with bisexual illustration besides, it captures the thrill and shock that may include discovering your sexuality later in life, and the magnetic, lightning in a bottle power that on the spot chemistry with a stranger can deliver into our lives.
A movie that actually wants no introduction, and obtained each the Queer Palm and Finest Actress award for Rooney Mara on the 2015 Cannes Movie Competition, this adaptation of Patricia Smith’s The Value of Salt impressed King Princess’ debut hit single “1950”. The time interval of the movie turns into a personality in and of itself, permeating the costumes, units, props, and politics of this heartbreakingly hopeful love story between a divorcée and a store lady, two unlikely lovers who overcome daunting obstacles to pursue a relationship collectively. An homage to queer ancestors previous who discovered a option to dwell their love and their fact in harsh circumstances, and only a fabulous excuse to drool over Cate Blanchett, we doubt any movie will knock this one out of the primary slot any time quickly.
