luni, 30 august 2010
Exclusive: Director Katherine Brooks talks about the controversy surrounding "Loving Annabelle"
Posted by Karman Kregloe, Editor in Chief on August 18, 2010
On September 14, Wolfe Video will release the US DVD premiere of the classic 1958 girls boarding school tale of forbidden love, Mädchen in Uniform. The film stars Romy Schneider as Manuela, the smitten student, and internationally acclaimed actress Lilli Palmer as Fraeulein Elisabeth von Bernburg, the reserved but sympathetic teacher and object of Manuela's affection. It also features legendary German (and openly lesbian) stage actress Therese Giehse as the iron-handed headmistress. (Check back in September for our review.)The Mädchen in Uniform DVD also includes a special 15-minute bonus featurette, "From Manuela To Annabelle," in which Loving Annabelle director Katherine Brooks discusses how Mädchen in Uniform inspired her film, and a special message from Jane Lynch about the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation. (A 35mm print of Mädchen has been deposited at the Outfest archive in conjunction with the DVD release.Check out this exclusive excerpt from the featurette in which Brooks talks about the controversy surrounding her steamy 2006 film.
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Erin Kelly as Annabelle Tillman
Diane Gaidry as Simone Bradley
Laura Breckenridge as Colins
Michelle Horn as Kristen
Ilene Graff as Mother Immaculata
Markus Flanagan as Michael
Leslie Andrews (as Lesli Andrews) as Martha
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Awards
Atlanta Film Festival
2006 Audience Award (Katherine Brooks)
Fort Worth Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival
2006 Q Award- Narrative Feature (Katherine Brooks)
L.A. Outfest
2006 Audience Award (Katherine Brooks)
2006 Grand Jury Award- Best Actress (Diane Gaidry)
Long Island Film Festival
2006 Audience Choice Award- Narrative Feature (Katherine Brooks)
Paris Cinema Festival
2006 Jury Award (Katherine Brooks)
Plot
Annabelle Tillman, the daughter of a senator, is sent to a Catholic boarding school after being expelled from two of her previous schools. Simone Bradley, a poetry teacher at the school, is in charge of her dormitory. Annabelle shares the dormitory with amiable classmate Christen, the bully Katherine and Colins, the nervous wreck.
Simone is a dependable and respectable teacher who occasionally bends the rules out of concern for her students but her personal life is synonymous with abiding by the conventions of society and religion. Annabelle is her antithesis – with unrestrained behavior, unconventional choices and outright defiance for authority.
Annabelle receives a stern rebuke from the principal, Mother Immaculata, for audaciously flaunting her Buddhist prayer beads. Simone is given the responsibility of controlling her. At first Simone requests the principal to move Annabelle to another dormitory but soon notices her maturity and sensitivity and convinces her to comply with the school regulations. In the process Annabelle develops a crush on Simone.
Simone resists Annabelle’s delicate overtures until they are left alone at the school during spring break. Simone drives Annabelle to her beach house where Annabelle discovers painful personal details about Simone’s past. Annabelle holds her tightly in her arms as Simone breaks down. A deep emotional connection is established between the two.
Simone fights a hard battle with herself but is eventually overpowered by Annabelle’s relentless pursuit. At the annual school dance when Annabelle pours her heart out with the song – "In the space between what’s wrong and right; you will find me waiting for you…" Simone is consumed by intense emotions and kisses Annabelle. They end up making passionate love.
The next morning Mother Immaculata walks in on them getting dressed and demands to see Simone in her office immediately. On being questioned if she did the right thing Simone admits that she loves Annabelle. Government officials arrest Simone and just as she is leaving, Annabelle places her most prized possession – the Buddhist prayer beads – in her hands.
Annabelle tearfully looks at her pictures taken by Simone at the beach house while Simone is driven away. The movie ends with the following quote – ‘For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks…the work for which all other work is but preparation.’
Annabelle Tillman, the daughter of a senator, is sent to a Catholic boarding school after being expelled from two of her previous schools. Simone Bradley, a poetry teacher at the school, is in charge of her dormitory. Annabelle shares the dormitory with amiable classmate Christen, the bully Katherine and Colins, the nervous wreck.
Simone is a dependable and respectable teacher who occasionally bends the rules out of concern for her students but her personal life is synonymous with abiding by the conventions of society and religion. Annabelle is her antithesis – with unrestrained behavior, unconventional choices and outright defiance for authority.
Annabelle receives a stern rebuke from the principal, Mother Immaculata, for audaciously flaunting her Buddhist prayer beads. Simone is given the responsibility of controlling her. At first Simone requests the principal to move Annabelle to another dormitory but soon notices her maturity and sensitivity and convinces her to comply with the school regulations. In the process Annabelle develops a crush on Simone.
Simone resists Annabelle’s delicate overtures until they are left alone at the school during spring break. Simone drives Annabelle to her beach house where Annabelle discovers painful personal details about Simone’s past. Annabelle holds her tightly in her arms as Simone breaks down. A deep emotional connection is established between the two.
Simone fights a hard battle with herself but is eventually overpowered by Annabelle’s relentless pursuit. At the annual school dance when Annabelle pours her heart out with the song – "In the space between what’s wrong and right; you will find me waiting for you…" Simone is consumed by intense emotions and kisses Annabelle. They end up making passionate love.
The next morning Mother Immaculata walks in on them getting dressed and demands to see Simone in her office immediately. On being questioned if she did the right thing Simone admits that she loves Annabelle. Government officials arrest Simone and just as she is leaving, Annabelle places her most prized possession – the Buddhist prayer beads – in her hands.
Annabelle tearfully looks at her pictures taken by Simone at the beach house while Simone is driven away. The movie ends with the following quote – ‘For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks…the work for which all other work is but preparation.’
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