Filmes: dramas e comédias

[Na rubrica de hoje uma dona de casa aborrecida vive aventuras inesperadas pelas ruas de Nova York; a filha de um bizarro casal de vigaristas descobre a alegria contida numa pilha de pequeninas panquecas e uma imigrante filipina luta para se manter na América]

Lingua Franca

Isabel Sandoval

2019

"Lingua Franca follows an undocumented Filipina trans woman Olivia after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga, an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn. Olivia’s main priority is to secure a green card to stay in America. But when she unexpectedly becomes romantically involved with Olga’s adult grandson, issues around identity, civil rights and immigration threaten her very existence"

Isabel Sandoval foi a primeira mulher transgénero de cor a ter um filme em competição no Festival de Veneza

(sinopse tirada daqui)

Desperately Seeking Susan

Susan Seidelman

1985

"Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline “Desperately Seeking Susan” proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan’s life"

O guião deste filme esteve no limbo  por anos porque quando era apresentado a estúdios apenas mulheres e gays gostavam. Foi inteiramente realizado, escrito e produzido por mulheres

(Sinopse tirada daqui)

Miranda July

2020

"Two con-artists have spent twenty six years training their only daughter, Old Dolio, to swindle, scam and steal at every opportunity. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down"