Title: A Nadir of Sapphic Cinema
Review: While Van Sant, Almodovar, LaBruce, et al. were revolutionizing queer cinema, bottom-feeders affixed to the independent circuit during the mid-'90s lapped up this artless, plodding, predictable swill, ameliorated by nary a single competent performance or novel twist. As director and screenwriter, Maria Maggenti was equally maladroit in both roles: her composition is abysmally clumsy, her every scenario cherry-picked from better dramas and rendered terminally dull by the stilted, contrived dialogue and timbered acting at her command. Worst of all, Terry Dame's amateurish score is impossibly irritating, often resembling circus music performed with jazz instrumentation.Of the billion-odd pictures to portray teens struggling with adversity in response to their homosexuality, this isn't the worst, but it's assuredly the most tedious: too gauche to enjoy, too bland to riff.
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