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Guinevere Turner and V.S. Brodie star in Go Fish.
D ykes on dates
Go Fish makes Claire of the Moon and Desert Hearts
look like prim Victorian novels
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by Steve Warren
Melendez), seems to be part of the household.
oung and hip, black and white, Go
Fish is like the pilot for an MTV
Ely’s roommate Darla (Anastasia Sharp) has
a new girlfriend to introduce every time the women
series about lesbian lives. Coming
out is not an issue for these contem
get together.
Written by producer Guinevere Turner (Max)
porary Chicago lesbians— except
and
Rose Troche, the story is simple
briefly for one; they’re just getting on with director-editor
their
enough to allow time for digressions—a discus
lives. If they’re unhappy, it’s not because of
sion of pet names for female genitalia; a class
external pressures but because they’re not getting
room outing session that ranges from the serious
enough nookie.
(Lily
Tomlin, Whitney Houston, Kristy McNichol,
Max (Guinevere Turner) is getting the least of
Agnes Moorehead) to the fanciful (Marilyn
all. She hasn’t “slept
Quayle, Morgan Fairchild, Peppermint Patty, the
with a woman in 10
entire cast of Roseanne)', the fantasy trial of a
months.” Or maybe
lesbian accused by the PC police of sleeping with
she’s doing better
a man; and Max’s dream of marrying a man and
than Ely (V .S.
living a “normal” life, which concludes with the
Brodie), who re
line “I’m not waiting for a man. I just hate this
mains faithful to a
eerie
feeling that a man is waiting for me.”
“p artn er”
who
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Troche’s “experimental” style of directing
moved to Seattle years ago. Her friends think
and
editing is well-matched to the frequent awk
that’s just her excuse for avoiding intimacy.
wardness of her largely nonprofessional cast.
So everyone conspires to bring Max and Ely
While
a few line readings set my teeth on edge,
together. Not only that, but the other women act as
most seem natu
a Greek C horus
ral
enough, in
(Sapphic,
of
context. I’ve seen
course), p erio d i
similar offerings
cally commenting
G
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F
is
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in festivals that
on the progress, or
were strictly ama
lack thereof, o f
teur-night, but
D anielle C upid.
T
roche knows
First, the suspense
how to make it
is: Will they? Then
work.
it ’ s: When will they?
As for sex, Troche walks a fine line between
Ely and Max are not a typical couple (if there
coyness
and exploitation, trying to compensate
is such a thing).
for the absence of hardcore with plenty of gratu
The generation gap is a problem at first. Max
itous
shots of women kissing and being intimate
thinks the long-haired Ely has “a severe case of
in other ways.
hippie-itis.” After Max attacks and Ely defends a
When the “New Queer Cinema” broke two
queer film they’ve just seen, Max concludes that
years ago at the Sundance Film Festival, there
Ely doesn’t seem to be interested in her own
were three films to carry the banner. This year
oppression.
found Go Fish standing alone as the "New Dyke
Max’s roommate, Kia (T. Wendy McMillan),
Cinema.”
Fortunately, it stands tall. ••
is a college professor. Kia’s lover, Evy < Migadaha
Y
Young and hip, black and
white,
is like the
pilot for an MTV series
about lesbian lives.
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