by Bhob Stewart
synopsis
Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Ambitious photography magazine associate editor Syd (Radha Mitchell) has a ho-hum relationship with James (Gabriel Mann). Investigating a ceiling leak, she enters the apartment of her neighbor, retired photographer Lucy Berliner (Ally Sheedy), who lives with former Fassbinder actress Greta (Patricia Clarkson), a heroin addict. The friendship between the worldly Lucy and the naive, insecure Syd ripens into an affair, one destined to change the lives of both women.
characteristics
- High Production Values
- Bohemian Life
- Drug Addiction
- In A Minor Key
- Lesbian
- Magazine
- Photographer
- Heroin
- Career
- Apartment
- Addict
- Editor
- Friend
- Life In The Arts
- Redemption
