She makes it clear soon enough that she's not happy to merely fit in with the rest of the girls and soon she focuses her attention on sexy older woman and teacher Simone Bradley. The film takes place in a Catholic school and the story begins with the arrival of new student Annabelle. If I'm going to like a romance movie, it really needs to have a twist and while this film does follow a set formula and it's always clear where it's going the fact that the two leads are female, as well as the fact that their romance is forbidden due to their 'professional' relationship and not to mention the religious themes means that director Katherine Brooks' debut feature has just about enough to distance itself from the mainstream. Generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of romance movies or at least not 'straight' romance movies (meaning films that follow a set structure, not anything regarding sexuality).
Reviewed by The_Void 7 / 10 Has it's problems, but works a touching story of forbidden love "The Children's Hour" is more of a schematic diagram than a feature movie. "Notes on a Scandal" was poignant because it so effectively projected Judi Dench's desperation at having grown matronly. More recently, "Desert Hearts" captured the complexity of such affairs without resort to gossipy school girls. "Madchen in Uniform" remains one of the best and most subtle. There have been good movies, and some very good, about lesbian affairs, latent or overt. Gaidry is better at nuance, but she really has only two expressions: slightly concerned and profoundly worried. Kelly is taciturn and unconvincing except when having a fit of pique. If there's a problem, and there is, it's that neither of the leads can act very well. She's supposed to be tough - always wearing a scowl and with an unbecoming do - but she's a cream puff compared to the nuns I had to cope with in my youth. And Mother Immaculata (Ilene Graff) is stern and unforgiving. One of the girls squeals on Kelly and Gaidry when the two are having their first and only physical encounter. Two characters in the story are devalued by the script. Kevin McCarthy is the sympathetic priest but he's marginal to the developments. The temptation must have been there for Flanagan to immediately start waving his arms and carrying on like some animal in a zoo after that desultory kiss, but it doesn't happen. Instead of acting shocked, the surprised guy (Markus Flanagan) leans back against the car door and stares at her silently, wearing a vague smile, while seconds of silence tick by. And when he drives her home after their last date, he kisses her as usual but she responds perfunctorily. But after she has begun to succumb to Kelly's overtures, she distances herself from her boy friend. Gaidry has been seeing this rather nice guy for whom she feels little.
There are not only quotations from Rilke and Proust but the lines play a meaningful part in the plot.Īnd there are a few neatly done directorial touches, by Katherine Brooks. The story and dialog are, if not sophisticated, at least not dumbed down for an audience of air heads. Neither is Denise Richards bursting out of a tiny swim suit, or the collagenic Angelina Jolie. But neither looks remotely like a sexual machine. Kelly is attractive, as most high-school-age girls tend to be Gaidry is quite beautiful at around the age of forty. For one thing, neither of the two principals is a hottie, which is perfectly fine.
There are some admirable things about the film. So is her poetry teacher (Diane Gaidry) who is trying to live a normal life with a normal boyfriend with whom she sleeps, but she gets nothing out of the relationship. Among her other unorthodoxies, she's a lesbian.
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Reviewed by rmax304823 6 / 10 Girls In Uniforms, But Not Uniform Girls.Īnnabelle (Erin Kelly) is a rebellious free spirit sent to a strict Catholic high school by her parents.