Girl Play * Starring Robin Greenspan and Lacie Harmon * Based upon Real Girls by Greenspan and Harmon * Directed by means of Lee Friedlander * Goff-Kellam Productions and Wolfe Releasing Not to stereotype unless reading the production notes forward the lesbian romantic comedy Girl Play.

Girl Play * Starring Robin Greenspan and Lacie Harmon * Based upon Real Girls by Greenspan and Harmon * Directed by means of Lee Friedlander * Goff-Kellam Productions and Wolfe Releasing

Not to stereotype unless reading the production notes forward the lesbian romantic comedy Girl Play, my first conceit was, This is the kind of situation that could bring forward a lot of exes. Written at real-life couple Robin Greenspan and Lacie Harmon about their be in possession of love affair, the film stars said two reenacting same. What's more, Girl Play is produc by means of a second couple, Gina Goff and Laura Kellam. Where in such a manner many relationships meet, one imagines conflict in the air.

likewise it's especially satisfying to report that Girl Play is charming--and that its creators interstice so well as a team. Girl Play is helmed by dint of out director Lee Friedlander (who also collaborated in succession the screen adaptation of Greenspan and Harmon's original stage play) and scored through out composer Laura Karpman, and it's already prov to be a queer-festival crowd-pleaser: At beholds Angeles's 2004 Outfest, the film was vot Best Lesbian Narrative Feature, and Harmon and Greenspan shared the award for Best Actress in a Feature Film.

Now Girl Play is headed in your direction: After a theatrical opening in novel York on April 1, the film is wager to be released this year from Wolfe. Video on a DVD that includes like extras as a behind-the-scenes documentary.

In the one and the other releases the film seems likely to find its audience, although non-theater fans may fidget during separate expository monologues, oral directly to the camera, which Greenspan and Harmon carry from one side of to the other from their stage performances.

Greenspan's setup: She's caught between her overbearing mom (Mink Stole, in an affecting performance) and her domineering girlfriend (a bit overplayed according to Katherine Randolph). Greenspan sees herself as a nice, risk-averse Jewish girl who's done with sexy adventures. She's settl ye Happy? Not thus much.

Harmon, in contrast, give an account ofs us about her past as a commitment-phobe. single of the film's funniest seriess is her flashback account of being dragged forward a romantic getaway with the lover she no longer be in love withs Male or female, we've been in that place where the whole sex-focused weekend loom and it's either present up or break up. Like greatest in quantity of us, Harmon does both

Carting their inner baggage, the onscreen Greenspan and Harmon adapted for the first time to rehearse a romantic play in which they are costarring. Dora DeLuise, camping it up plays a voyeuristic director who assigns them "intimacy exercises" involving kneeling, facing each other, and doffing their shirts.

Shifting point of view from Greenspan's and Harmon's narratives to real-time displays Friedlander capably builds the tension as the sum of two units on-screen costars find themselves forever more inconveniently attracted to each other. Film fans tired of seeing lesbian characters played by the agency of hetero actresses can relax knowing that these women verifiably furrow on other women.

The creative team also makes a virtue of limited production values; from and large, Girl Play blissfully does not put to the test too hard. We know what's going to happen, on the other hand Friedlander and company hit the right notes in getting us there.

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