Puccini for Beginners

Another LLGFF review:

Mia Minke

Puccini for Beginners

Puccini for Beginners was quite slick, well played, well written and very New York but overall it was strangely unsatisfying. It might just be that I expect more radical content or film-making from festival films, because if I was to see it at my local cinema it would be a lovely date movie. On the other hand maybe I’m spoilt because for the people I know there’s not much that’s shocking about a lesbian falling for a man.

It’s still nice to see a positive representation of queer life on the screen, and I particularly liked the scenes where passing characters broke out of role to engage with the main character’s internal dialogue.

It felt weirdly transgressive watching heterosexual sex in a cinema full of queer at a Lesbian and Gay film festival.