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Year:    2000
Studio:  n/a
Feature: 1/5
DVD:     2/5

This is a DVD containing two short independent films plus a documentary. "Peach" is a 15-minute film about a girl who aquires a peach. Then there is another girl who is attracted to the peach and the first girl. Then there's some peach philosophy about eating it before it spoils which I suppose is a suggestion that the first girl should dump her boyfriend and work on what she feels for the second girl. Then the film ends.

The second film is about 18 minutes called "A Bitter Song". A Greek family living in Auckland in 1956. The dad is good looking yet a bit irresponsible and goes out to the men's club often. There is a little girl who gets sick and has to go to the hospital. She apparently dreams of her dad coming to rescue her but he doesn't because he's out drinking with his buddies. At the end of the film she spurns him because he has let her down so often.

The documentary is a 55 minutes called "Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film". It's elements from about 6 different interviews of lesbian filmmakers. How they discovered they were lesbians, why they made their movies, what do they think of lesbians in general.

In general I was amazingly bored. The two short films have rather subtle, if any, messages. The documentary is rather talky and monotone. You'd have to be really interested in the subject to watch these.

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