Genre: Romance, Comedy
Tagline: A love triangle of operatic proportions
Plot: Everyone is love-crazed in Maria Maggenti's delightfully quick-witted screwball comedy, Puccini for Beginners; but Allegra Castiglione–our dashing, adorable heroine–is by far the most commitment phobic. Her lesbian lover dumped her because she couldn't settle down and say "I love you." And just as she's drowning her sorrows in a giant slice of Camembert, in walks Philip, a dapper Columbia professor who, against her better judgment, lights her fire. Kicking and screaming, she launches an affair with–heaven forbid–a man! Meanwhile, she falls into bed with irresistibly gorgeous Grace, a recently single, straight woman, of all things. While juggling two romances that are advancing way too quickly for comfort, Allegra lands in hot water that boils over into an explosive, cathartic climax for all. Waltzing beyond the coming-out stories of a decade ago, Maggenti playfully ushers in a new era of lesbian cinema free from an ideological agenda. Here sexuality is fluid and unapologetic, while gender identity and
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Maria Maggenti
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, The Love Letter, Without a Trace |
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Maria Maggenti
The Love Letter, Without a Trace, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love |
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 | Justin Kirk
Ask the Dust, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Teddy Bears' Picnic | | Elizabeth Reaser
The Family Stone, The Believer, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | | | | |
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