I m collecting information for an article on three recent films exploring

young women emotionally and/or physically involved with one another and

their subsequent joint participation in murdering an older woman.  The

films I m interested in were all released in 1994, FUN (Neo Modern/Grey

Cat), SISTER MY SISTER (UK Channel 4) and HEAVENLY CREATURES

(WingNut/Miramax).  Thematic issues as varied and widespread as female

generational relationships, class,juvenile  thrill killing,  the feminine

creative impulse, female sexual repression in adolescents, definitions of

lesbian relationships, women and religion are all part of my concern, as

well as filmic matters such as subjectivity, reliability of narrator and

 true life  narrative evolution into film (all three films are based on

actual incidents).  I would welcome serious discussion of any or all of

the above three films and recommendations of readings on any of these

topics.

 

LF Ribeiro

 

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