Lianna (Sayles, 1983): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.15pm
This is a 35mm screening from Lost Reels. The presentation will include an online Q&A discussion with filmmaking legend John Sayles and his producer and partner Maggie Renzi.
Time Out review:
John Sayles is spokesman for his generation, the babies of the post-war boom
who made love and fought their wars within themselves. Their growing
pains came late: Lianna (Linda Griffiths) is thirty, married and the mother of
two, when she falls in love with Ruth (Jane Hallaren), her night-school
teacher. Sayles sympathetically maps the hurricane-like effects of this
on Lianna's life - thrown out by her philandering husband,
cold-shouldered by her straight friends, stormy scenes with her lover -
his sparkling dialogue illuminating every aspect of Lianna's sexuality
with a zeal that is almost proselytising. The love scenes are infused
with a tender erotic glow that deepens the shadows around the
titillation of Personal Best, and the comedy in Lianna's
post-coital glee as she cruises other women and announces herself as gay
to people in launderettes is irresistible. A gem, rough-hewn by Sayles
and polished to perfection in peerless performances.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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