So, I got asked to review a movie at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, and I went down and picked up the screener and popped it in the DVD player last month.
And then I sat there and went, how did someone who I have never met and in fact, hadn't even heard of, make the absolute perfect movie for me?
It's a lesbian detective with a gay man as her sidekick and she wears high heels and a has a little gun in her purse and she never, ever doesn't know what to do. I love that in a woman:
It's in a genre all its own — the lesbian/gay buddy movie gone sexed-up noir thriller — and it has a mystery at its heart. Add lots of girl-on-girl kissing and our dyke detective running around in high heels and a tight dress with a gun, and you've got 2 Minutes Later, a film by Robert Gaston (OpenCam), currently making the rounds on the LGBT film festival circuit.
I particularly loved this comment by Gaston:
"Attending GLBT film festivals with my last film, OpenCam, I kept seeing the GLBT community divided as men and women went to their separate theaters for separate experiences," he said. "It's been a goal of mine in recent projects to try to appeal and celebrate the sexuality of a cross-section of the community. I developed the characters of Abigail and Michael because I wanted to show gay men and lesbians working together, and depict a relationship I'd not see on film before."
It worked really well for me, with lots of snappy banter and terrific acting and a nice little mystery to tie it all together. And I totally want this to become a television series. I would watch it every week for the rest of ever.
Here's the full review, and that's Jessica Graham, who played Abigail, in the photo. One guess what else I liked about the movie.
Wow, I will be going right out to buy this.
p.s. your blog is a great find for me. Dogs and GBLT. I'm in heaven.
Posted by: Emily | 03 August 2007 at 04:55 PM