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Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives is a canadien film of genre Documentary directed by Aerlyn Weissman with Stéphanie Morgenstern

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992)

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
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Length 1h25
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OriginCanada
Genres Documentary,    Historical
Rating73% 3.6625053.6625053.6625053.6625053.662505

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives is a 1992 Canadian documentary film about the lives of lesbian women and their experiences of lesbian pulp fiction. It was written and directed by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman and featured author Ann Bannon. It premiered at the 1992 Toronto Film Festival and was released in the United States on 4 August 1993. It was produced by Studio D, the women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada.

In May 2014, the NFB re-released the film in a digitally remastered version.

Synopsis

Dix femmes, vivant pour la plupart à Vancouver ou à Toronto, parlent de leur vie de lesbienne dans les années 1940, 1950 et 1960 : elles découvrent les romans en fascicules de l'époque sur les femmes amoureuses, leurs premières aventures, la douleur de la rupture, la fréquentation des bars gays, les descentes de police, les réactions des hommes et l'étiquette des rôles masculins et féminins. Les interviews et les images d'archives sont entrecoupées de quatre chapitres dramatisés d'un roman de gare, "Forbidden Love" : Laura quitte son bled pour la ville, où elle rencontre Mitch dans un bar. Les étincelles fusent, les rires et la joie aussi. Ann Bannon, l'un des auteurs de ces romans de poche sur l'amour interdit, parle du genre.

Actors

Stéphanie Morgenstern

(Laura)Lynne Adams

(Mitch)Marie-Jo Thério

(Beth)Ann-Marie MacDonald

(Narrator)
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