11/9/2022 0 Comments Loving annabelle 2 full movieAnnabelle not only has the intellectual chops to attract Simone, she’s also emotionally articulate. Once she learns of Amanda’s suicide, Annabelle understands Simone’s pain and sets about helping the older woman release her past.Īnnabelle is smart and mature, which keeps the plot from plummeting into utter incredibility (and perhaps, to some, although I have to say not to me, moral ambiguity). But Annabelle is preternaturally sophisticated for her age (which would be, at most, 17). She comes on strong, practically stalking the older woman in her quest for Simone’s affections. Annabelle feels their mutual attraction first and fast. As he presses for a commitment, her attentions and affections wander toward her young charge. Simone pines for her lover, while she lets herself get involved with a perfectly nice, awfully boring male teacher from a nearby private school. Simone’s lover Amanda committed suicide, not strong enough-her final note confesses-to withstand the public condemnation (in the late 20th century?) of a lesbian life. Annabelle doesn’t take long to learn that Simone was once just like her-rebellious, passionate, and, of course, queer. She’s a wiry, lithesome woman, with the stooped stance that signals both barely repressed sexuality and a tragic past. The teacher in charge of corralling Annabelle is Simone (Diane Gaidry), herself a former pupil of the school who teaches poetry and lives as the housemistress in the girls’ dorm. We learn quickly that Annabelle has already been expelled from two previous schools, and that if the high school’s imperious nuns can’t break her free spirit, she’ll be sent next to military school. The two women are surrounded by white men in black suits, the entourage of government security that keeps Annabelle even further from maternal intimacy. In the opening, Annabelle rides beside the senator in a stretch limousine, looking sadly out the window while her mother, talking into her cell phone and holding a sheaf of papers, ignores her. To paint the context for her version of the old story, Brooks creates a standard series of girls’ boarding school types: Colins (Laura Breckenridge), the slightly crazy lonely girl, who cuts herself and hides a rescued porcupine in a cage in her room Cat (Gustine Fudickar), the aggressive, brash, brusque type, who is no doubt deeply emotionally wounded, but covers her emotions with nonchalant hostility and Kristen (Michelle Horn), the more sexually experienced girl (who’s in fact had a child that her parents now call their own) who’s along for the ride in the awkward threesome these girls comprise.Īnnabelle (Erin Kelly) is new to the strict Catholic school, brought to the isolated estate somewhere outside of LA by her mother, a wealthy, self-important senator. It’s a small indie film, written and directed by Katherine Brooks, who according to the DVD shorts and extras, watched the classic lesbian film Maidchen in Uniform and decided to make her own teacher-student love story in which, instead of deferring the romance to longing, unrequited passion, and inevitable suicide, something actually happens between the two women.
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