The Watermelon Woman
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 31, 2017
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cheryl Dunye & Guinevere Turner | |
Performer: | Lisa Marie Bronson, Cheryl Clarke, Brian Freeman & Camille Paglia | |
Directed by | Cheryl Dunye | |
Edited by | Cheryl Dunye | |
Screenwriting by | Cheryl Dunye |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
The narrative, abot a black lesbian director, is elliptical and circular, borrowing its format from Jim McBride's seminal David Holtzman's Diary, at the end of which, the viewers realize they have been watching a fake documentary.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 5/5 --
[A] sweetly sardonic, pretension-busting look at an African-American lesbian filmmaker negotiating our multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-sexual, multi-multi world.
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Killer Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
By the end of the film, the lines between reality and fiction are blurred in that Cheryl in the film and Dunye herself with the film itself are both making points about black women in film.
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Gay Essential
Rating: 7/10 --
...a unique film and a real time capsule of the 1990s when movie geeks hung out at video stores.
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Playback:stl
Funny and smart, full of biting humor and astute observations about identity and history, Cheryl Dunye's audacious, joyous debut feature captures the process of falling hopelessly in love with the movies.
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Village Voice
The Watermelon Woman can be awkward and clunky, and its shoestring budget sometimes shows. But it's also fresh and frequently very funny.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's a film of such multitudinous interests and storytelling pursuits that its unfolding replicates the ecstasy of newfound romance.
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Slant Magazine
Product Description:
A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal quest to uncover the mammy's identity, much to the confusion of her white, middle-class girlfriend. Features a guest bit by Paglia as herself, pontificating on the rich symbolism of mammies and watermelons.
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Product Info
- UPC: 720229917230
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