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OLIVIA (1951) dir. Jacqueline Audry
#olivia#jacqueline audry#classicfilmcentral#cinemaspast#uservintage#women directors#olivia 1951#wlw#french cinema#movie tag#ellisgifs#from the drafts#queue#i loveeee visual representations of the film’s core themes of emotional vampirism and vulnerability#also pls read the book the book is great
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— Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey), Olivia (1949)
#olivia 1949#olivia 1951#dorothy strachey#dorothy bussy#lesbian literature#english literature#on love#fragments#excerpts
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Edwige Feuillère
#it could be 1950s or 1960s I'm not really sure#i lean towards 1950s but idk for certain#anyway EPITOME of sugar mommy vibes but that's besides the point#also OBSESSED with the sumptuous fur 😍😍#edwige feuillère#photography#vibe goals#vintage#fashion#people#actress#dreamy#portrait#pretty#glamour#l'aigle à deux têtes#olivia 1951#vintage films#1950s#1960s
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"Olivia" (1951) original press kit <333
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all this old movie analysis got me back in my Olivia (1951) mindset...Something something problematic lesbians kissing each other.
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OLIVIA (1951)
dir. Jacqueline Audry
In the late nineteenth century, Olivia, an English teenager, arrives at a finishing school in France. The majority of the pupils in the school are divided into two camps: those that are devoted to the headmistress, Mlle Julie and those who follow Mlle Cara, an emotionally manipulative and sickly woman who is obsessed with Mlle Julie. Further conflicts shake the school once the fascinating headmistress sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer.
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#lgbt cinema#lesbian cinema#olivia 1951#french cinema#lgbt#lesbian#france#lgbt film#lesbian film#french film#lgbt movie#lesbian movies#french movie#european cinema#queer cinema#edwige feuillère#simone simon#jacqueline audry#marie-claire olivia#1951#1950s#1950s movies#1950s films#1950s cinema
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“Yet oh! I sighed, how willingly I would die to make her happy.”
#simping older women since 1949#or actually wait#since 1881 actually#the book was published in 1949 but the events it described took place in 1881#Olivia#Olivia 1949#Olivia 1951#Dorothy Strachey
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Hey kids!
Being it’s pride month, let me remind you all of this little group of pals we’ve assembled! It’s a group to watch wlw gay content in a comfortable setting, every few weeks to a month. We’ve watched such classics as Desert Hearts, Serving in Silence, 8 Women, Summerland, Olivia, etc.
No pressure, just come talk about wlw stuff you like with a bunch of fellow like minded people! We ship pretty much everything gay here. I don’t make the rules it just works out that way.
(Must be 18+ please!)
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Diary of a Big Ole Gay - 2/21/2023
Hey whores, I realized that its been a minute but I've lost a bit of steam this month on my Search for gay smooches. but lets get this out of the way not because I don't want to make you cum emotional, intellectional, and academically but because daddy is very busy this week and he wants to make sure that we have some time together before I have to get back to work. *kisses*
(sorry that metaphor got away from me by which I mean it became aggresively sexual... woops)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949) dir. Howard Hawks
This was a recent favorite of this list which is ironic because its the least gayest film on this list. I was a Male War Bride is essentially one half enemies to lovers and one half bueracratic farce as Cary Grant deals with a goverment system that expects a women but gets a man. In some small sense thats pretty politically clear but this film is objectively straight in a pretty wholesome way. You have what is clearly a partnership of equals and cary grant is put into this submissive role as the male in the relationship.
The Reason why its on this list is that Cary Grant does drag in this. I noticed that moving into the post war not only does the use of cross-dressing deminish but the Coquette Drag, (serving fish, serving cunt, hunty), is replaced with Edward S. Porter Spinster drag. These men are supposeed to look uggo honey. TBF cary grant has a very butch face so its a bit of a miss sweedie situration but the producers purposely wanted him to appear "manish" in his depiction. Honestly compare this with Some Like It Hot.
Testament of Orpheus (1960) dir. Jean Cocteau
The ending of the Orphic Trilogy, its arthouse in the most aggresively way possible. We see a lot of his stylistic choices and what we get is a Sister Age-esque story of coming to terms with death.
This film is a little more visually gayer then Orpheus. Cocteau gropes his muse a bunch in this but if anything this series is the epitome of the Gay Artiste trope and while very Kinema very Movie Critic, it has a lack of overt queer text that I'm looking for on this list.
Olivia (1951) dir. Jacqueline Audry
A spiritual sucessor to Madchen in Uniform this is a movie that is more gay in the sense that theres more lesbians in it. This film has a lot of similar elements, (the gynocentric world of a isolated boarding school and mommy kinks), but it for me at least doesn't have the same queer longing that I loved about MIU.
However this is a must watch for the sapphics so don't listen to the man-words of this little homo.
Everything Else I Watched.
oof lets see the entire filmography of Emile Reynaud. First 20 Bitesize Nightmares shorts. The Prom Night, Ginger Snaps, Cube, and Rec Sequels. Slumber Party Massacre 2. Some shorts from Bruce of Los Angelas, Every Stag Film on LB except for the Virgin in Hot Pants. Oh and Battleship Potemkin. So I've been busy watching other stuff.
Also shout out to Raquel 1:1(2022) I reviewed it for Breaking Glass and its actually pretty good.
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Today's Woman Home Decorating Guide by Charles H. Henderson A.I.D. 1951
#vintage ad#vintage ads#advertising#advertisment#cookbook#cook book#olivia 1951#1950s#1950s ad#1950's#1950's ad
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‘— the amorphous deliquescence of sentimentality.’
— Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey), Olivia (1949)
#Olívia#dorothy bussy#dorothy Strachey#lgbtq literature#lgbt literature#English literature#olivia 1949#olivia 1951#on love#on sentimentality#fragments#excerpts
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CINEMATIC PARALLELS
Olivia (1951), dir. Jacqueline Audry
Amateur (1994), dir. Hal Hartley
#not my gay ass accidentally finding a parallel#cinematic parallels#parallels#does this count as web weaving lol idk i doubt it??#film#cinema#movies#olivia 1951#jacqueline audry#edwige feuillère#simone simon#amateur 1994#hal hartley#isabelle huppert#elina löwensohn#wlw#sapphic#lesbian#bisexual#queer#lgbt film#(the queer tags are in relation to olivia just for clarification!)#mind you the still from amateur also looks kinda sapphic out of context lolol#classic film#vintage#aesthetic#costume drama#period drama
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Olivia (1951) Jacqueline Audry
May 13th 2023
#olivia#1951#jacqueline audry#marie-claire olivia#edwige feuillere#simone simon#suzanne dehelly#yvonne de bray#rina rhety#lesly meynard#marina de berg#tania soucault#the pit of loneliness
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Cara’s Age Regression
Watching this scene definitely made me feel like Cara is an age regressor. Whether it’s voluntary or not I’m not sure but it’s definitely a way for her to cope with her mental health.
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