GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE September 6, 2002

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Lesbians of the world unite, on DVD

by Anthony Glassman

Canada, Germany and Britain, taken as a trio, do not appear to have much in common.

When it comes to the local video store, however, all three countries are responsible for lesser-known films of interest to lesbians.

The British film Butterfly Kiss, starring the quirky Amanda Plummer and the adorable Saskia Reeves, is equal parts Easy Rider, Thelma and Louise and Natural Born Killers.

Repressed Miriam (Reeves) is working as

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a gas station attendant when she is accosted by Eunice, who claims to be looking for her girlfriend but is actually on a mission to be noticed by God.

Most people, when looking to catch God's eye, go to church and pray, or perhaps build a monument to their higher power. Eunice, however, kills people who piss her off.

Miriam, at first, does not know this, but is quite taken with the eccentric stranger. They spend the night together at the apartment where Miriam cares for her elderly mother, but in the morning Eunice has disappeared.

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Miriam, desperately smitten, hitchhikes out to find her, and the duo then start on a cross-country voyage of discovery and destruction.

Along the way, the raging emotions Miriam has never been able to vent emerge, and the question becomes whether Miriam will douse the fires that drive Eunice before they ignite within her own soul.

From our neighbors to the north, the masters of the Native American film, comes Johnny Greyeyes, perhaps the only film on earth focusing on indigenous Canadian lesbians.

It also is certainly the most unlikely women-in-prison film ever made, completely lacking sadistic matrons, innocent young victims of cruel penal veterans or the forced sex that makes such films normally so appealing to heterosexual men of a certain mindset.

Instead, the film focuses on its title character, a native woman who was sentenced to serve time in a juvenile detention facility for attacking her stepfather when he tried to beat her brother. She escaped from juvie with a friend and they made their way to Vancouver, where she was forced to kill a man to protect herself and her friend. That killing led to a sevenyear term in a women's prison.

The film bounces between prison and after her release. In prison, Johnny meets and falls in love with another inmate, Lana. Johnny talks on the phone to her brother and gets visited by her mother, who spends her time in abject loneliness, missing the daughter who went to jail and the son who moved to Toronto.

Johnny's brother doesn't want to speak to his mother, having not forgiven her for being unable to protect him from the abuse he faced as a child. Johnny, however, has realized that, whether in prison or Toronto, family is all that she and her brother

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Kotz pursues Roswitha, and the two of them together face the demons of their pasts.

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