BANDAGED

There are no sessions available for your selected film.

Dir: Maria Beatty, Germany, 2009, video, 92min
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Foreign Language, Horror, Romance
Identity: Lesbian

Teenaged Lucille is determined to go to college and study poetry, but her autocratic, smothering surgeon father, and complicit grandmother, demand she studies sciences so she may follow the career path of her father. Desperate to escape her caged bird existence, she attempts suicide but fails, and is left with a horribly disfigured face. In a mad-scientist way, her father watches over her recovery and reconstructive surgeries at home, but must hire a nurse he can trust to keep his secret and tend to his daughter. Before long, 30-something Joan arrives to care for Lucille, and their regular luxurious sponge baths inevitably lead to a heated sexual affair between the two women, and extreme measures are required to keep the affair secret.

Maria Beatty’s cinematic aesthetic has been likened to the experimental, symbolic, and sexually charged cinematography of Jean Genet and Kenneth Anger. With queer horror luminaries Abel Ferrara and Jurgen Bruning on board in the production departments, we’re treated to a smorgasbord of exploitation and manipulation, along with a strong sense of the absurd that help make this an out of the box lesbian horror film. (LD)