8/15/2023 0 Comments Go fish movieMax’s love life takes an unexpected spin when she meets Ely, an older woman who is conveniently breaking ties with her out-of-town girlfriend. Max muses on her perennially single status The relationship between Max and her friends is endearing, if 13-year-old me had seen this, she would have been hopeful that other people like her existed and that they could build a network of support. If there is one thing I love about Go Fish, it’s the strong community of women it portrays. Max is frustratingly single, sharing an apartment with lesbian couple Kia and Evy. Do you know there’s not one scene in the movie where I’m not wearing that hat?!”. Even Guinevere Turner thought the hat was a bit too much: “I wouldn’t have worn that fucking baseball hat. Max (Guinevere Turner, who you may remember better as Gabby, Alice’s bitchy on-and-off girlfriend from The L Word) is a lesbian child of the 90s who wears nothing but baggy t-shirts, an oversized denim jacket and will not be seen without her baseball hat. So, let’s dive into this mismatch of a film and see how lesbian cinema has come so far in the last 25 years. That said, Go Fish is also an awkward product of its time and I guarantee that you will find yourself laughing out loud at how little has held up today. There was no need for a melodramatic plot, the queer protagonists were not femme fatales yearning for the male gaze, they were unapologetically queer women who went around their daily routine, cooking dinner together and picking up girlfriends along the way. ![]() But it was the first queer film to depict lesbians in a casual setting. ![]() Directed by Rose Troche (who went on to direct and write the first seasons of The L Word), Go Fish was shot in black and white, starred some (very!) amateur actresses and sounds like it was recorded in a tinny basement. ![]() Then, in 1994 along came an independent movie called Go Fish. Most of these films had either explicitly tragic endings (Think of Martha’s downfall in 1961’s The Children’s Hour) or had ambiguous finales where it was up to the viewer to decide what happened next (I myself have several theories on how Desert Hearts could have continued). However, in 1994 the panorama was very different.īefore 1994, most films that featured lesbians went like this: Girl meets girl, girl falls in love with girl, girl can’t handle the pressure from society and either marries a man or kills herself. And it makes me proud to say that this was not all, the growth of female queer representation in 2018 was strong across world TV and cinema and 2019 promises to be just as good ( The L Word is coming back !!). We were treated to Keira Knightley reclaiming the story of Colette, Chloë Grace Moretz made us laugh, then cry in The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Kate Siegel gave one of the most beautifully nuanced portrayals of a queer woman in The Haunting of Hill House and finally, we got not one, but two queer Rachel Weisz movies, one of which is nominated for several Oscars. ![]() Over last year and the start of this one, there has been an explosion of incredible lesbian and bisexual talent on screen. Writing as a queer woman in 2019, I am lucky enough to say that we are currently experiencing a “Lesbian Renaissance” in film and TV.
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