TRU LOVE (2013) - Lesbian Interest Movie

Tru and Alice

Tru Love (2013) (IMDb 6.3) is a lesbian interest movie from Canada featuring the love story between Tru and Alice. The storyline concerns recently widowed Alice who makes a last minute visit to the city to spend time with her daughter Suzanne. Suzanne, a hard working lawyer who already has a difficult relationship with her mother enlists her friend Tru who is between jobs to babysit her mother while she works long hours on a case.

Alice: My daughter is very secretive.
Suzanne: My mother is very intrusive.

Tru and Alice have an immediate connection despite the obvious age gap, Tru is 37 and Alice is 60. Thrughout the movie they have a lot of frank conversations but all tinged with humor and a glint in their eyes. Alice asks early on "do you prefer younger or older women" not surprisingly Tru comes back with "both".

Alice: Can I ask you a direct question?
Tru: Fire away.
Alice: I don't want to be intrusive.
Tru: I don't mind.
Alice: Have you always known that you were ...
Tru: A lesbian?
Alice: Yes.
Tru: Well no. I tried dating guys when I was younger. Wasn't my thing.
Alice: Don't you miss ... don't you miss men? You know ... sex I mean.
Tru: That's a deeply penetrating question.
Tru: No. Sex with women is hot.
Alice: Is it?
Tru: My turn.
Tru: Why did you get married Alice?
Alice: Oh well. You know it was a different time and uh I needed to escape my circumstances.
Alice: I mean it was either that or join a nunnery. You couldn't be a lesbian.
Tru: You could if you joined a nunnery.
Alice: You enjoy life don't you?
Tru: I have my moments.
Alice: Heart break?
Tru: More than once.
Tru: I'm very good at starting relationships. It's uh the middle and end parts I tend to ___ up.
Tru: ... it seems I have poor boundaries and I'm not equipped for healthy relationships.
Tru: At least that's what my fabulously hot therapist tells me.
Tru: [making a toast] To lesbian love. A blood sport.
Alice: Have you slept with a lot of lesbians?
Tru: Well most of the women that I have slept with are in fact card carrying lesbians. But not all. Confused women like to sleep with me too.

As the days wear on the closeness that develops between Tru and Alice begins to bother Suzanne who once had a thing with Tru and is not sure where she stands with her or wants to stand with her. The jealousy culminates in Suzanne lying to try to separate Alice and Tru however she underestimates the degree of their connection.

Alice: Why didn't you come?
Tru: I did come. Suzanne told me you were sick.
Alice: I wasn't sick.
Tru: Did you get my note?
Alice: Why would she do that? I mean lie? To me? and to you?
Tru: Alice
Alice: What?
Tru: I thought that we had worked it out but I guess she is still upset with me.
Alice: Upset? Upset about what?
Tru: I think it would be better if she told you.
Alice: Told me what?
Alice: You know I'm so damn tired of being kept in the dark. It's highly overrated.
Tru: It's complicated.
Suzanne: Yeah well. Why don't you just uncomplicate it?
Tru: Remember when I told you that confused women like to sleep with me too.
Tru: One time. One time when I stayed over at her place
Alice: We both had too much to drink and ...
Alice: You and Suzanne?
Tru: We woke up in bed together and ... that was awkward. She couldn't talk about it and
Tru: That was the last time I stayed with her.
Alice: How long ago?
Tru: June
Alice: So shortly after Richard died.
Tru: We bumped into each other a while ago. She said she missed me and wanted to reconnect. She seemed really happy about that.
Tru: We've had coffee and talked but not about that ... I thought we were OK but ...
Tru: I'm sorry.
Alice: I don't know what to say.
Tru: We can still be friends though can't we Alice?
Alice: Friends. Yes of course ... Friends that's what we are.
Alice: I'm sorry I doubted you. I thought you were tired of me.
Tru: I could never tire of you.
Alice: Really?
Tru: Really.

Eventually Suzanne is forced to accept the relationship between Alice and Tru and make her peace with Tru.

Suzanne: I like you Tru. I do.
Tru: But
Suzanne: But, um ...
Suzanne: I'm just not sure that I am gay. I don't know what I am.
Suzanne: I think that's why I freaked out on you. I was feeling um a bit threatened and uh confused I guess.
Tru: It's OK to be confused.
Suzanne: I think my mother might be a bit confused.
Suzanne: Thank you for making her a cake.
Tru: No problem.
Suzanne: Are you going to stay for her last dinner?
Tru: I'd love to.
Suzanne: Good.

Tru Love (2013) delivers a compelling story of love and connection between an older and younger woman which is very unusual in itself. The triangle between the three women as they work through past hurts also adds weight to the film. There are some excellent lines for the characters to work with particularly those interactions between Tru and Alice which helps to make them endearing along with their solid performances.

Tru Love (2013) is an enjoyable movie to watch but it disappoints by not providing a happy ending to this unconventional love affair. Tru is changed enough by the experience to commit to on-again-off-again girlfriend Claire who makes a few brief appearances throughout the movie. It is not a convincing end or a desirable one and it is hard to know why so much of the film was spent laying the foundations with Alice and dismantling them with Claire to then do a 360 degree turn with the ending.


Read more about Tru Love (2013) at IMDb

Shauna MacDonald as Tru

Kate Trotter as Alice

Christine Horne as Suzanne (Alice's daughter)

Country of Origin: Canada

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Subtitles: None

Runtime: 2 minute trailer

Initial Release: 2013

Director: Kate Johnston, Shauna MacDonald

Writers: Kate Johnston, Shauna MacDonald

Where to Watch: Tubi


Other Links
Tru Love (2013) Film on Wikipedia
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ATOMIC BLONDE (2017) - Lesbian Interest Movie (Lorraine and Delphine)

Lorraine and Delphine

Atomic Blonde (2017) (IMDb 6.7) is a lesbian interest movie featuring a woman loving woman storyline between Lorraine and Delphine. Charlize Theron plays Lorraine aka Elizabeth Lloyd, an MI6 spy who is sent to Berlin on a mission to investigate the murder of a fellow spy and to retrieve a coveted list hidden in a Swiss watch.

In Berlin Lorraine is challenged to determine who she can trust as danger seems to be around every turn. Although she doesn't act on the information she is aware that she is being followed by Delphine La Salle (Sofia Boutella), a French operative, who is collecting intelligence for the French government. She asks Percival, her contact, "what do you know about this woman who's  been following me since Tempelhof?" and receives from him an interesting reply "I'd say that you're an attractive woman and you should do the math."

Eventually Lorraine and Delphine meet in a bar and Delphine deters the Russian spy who is nosing around by saying that they haven't seen each other in a while and they really need to catch up. Delphine tells Lorraine that she is a part-time translator who really wants to be a poet or a rock star among other things. Delphine then shares that part of the reason she came to Berlin was because of a broken heart.

Atomic Blonde Movie Quote 1
Delphine: I studied at the Sorbonne. As soon as I graduated I made a beeline here.
Lorraine: Why Berlin?
Delphine: The excitement. The danger.
Delphine: A broken heart.
Lorraine: Well whoever he is I'm sure he regrets it.
Delphine: I'm sure she does.

Lorraine remains skeptical of Delphine but is intrigued enough by her and the hope of gaining information to turn up to the club the next night at Delphine's invitation.

Atomic Blonde Movie Quote 2
Delphine: My friend owns a club nearby. You want to come check it out?
Lorraine: Now?
Delphine: Sure!
Lorraine: I can't.
Delphine: Well I give you the address anyway. You can meet me there tomorrow night.
Delphine: Will you come? Maybe?
Lorraine: You're relentless

On arrival at the Club Delphine is there waiting for Lorraine with a drink in hand and a question she has been dying to ask.

Atomic Blonde Movie Quote 3
Delphine: I didn't think that you would show.
Delphine: It's Dirty on the Rocks?
Lorraine: You pay attention.
Delphine: I look for pleasure in the details.
Delphine: Speaking of which, I've been dying to ask you a question [leans in and kisses Lorraine]
Delphine: Let's go someplace quiet!

Out the back of the nightclub the couple start kissing passionately and then Lorraine discovers Delphine's gun and demands she explain herself.

Atomic Blonde Movie Quote 4
Lorraine: Why the gun Delphine?
Delphine: You are not as well disguised as you may think. I know who you are.
Delphine: You're Lorraine Broughton, MI6 and you're here because of the death of Gascoigne.
Lorraine: What do you know about Gascoigne?
Delphine: Nothing but if someone is killing Allied Officers shouldn't we all care?  
Delphine: Whatever's in that list has people willing to kill for it.
Delphine: It's my first assignment with the French Intelligence. I've only been here a year.
Delphine: I'm scared okay. I got into this because it was exciting but it's never been like this in Berlin.
Lorraine: You should have become a poet
Lorraine: or a rock star

Lorraine and Delphine then go on to make passionate love. The love scene is hot to say the least and is convincingly choreographed. In the deleted scenes we find a longer discussion between Lorraine and Delphine about love and it is a shame that it didn't make the final cut.

Atomic Blonde Movie Quote 5
Delphine: What are you thinking?
Lorraine: I'm thinking you should go back to sleep.
Delphine: Have you ever been in love?
Delphine: I think that love is the only thing worth living for. Or dying for.
Lorraine: I'm not afraid of love.
Delphine: Then what are you afraid of?
Lorraine: Of losing it.
Delphine: When you tell the truth you look different.
Delphine: Your eyes change.
Lorraine: Thanks for the warning.
Delphine: What do you mean?
Lorraine: I mean I better not do that again.
Delphine: Why?
Lorraine: Because it's going to get me killed one day.

The Atomic Blonde film is largely told with a series of flashbacks interweaved between key scenes. At the debrief with MI6 Lorraine lies by telling them that Delphine gave her no information when in fact Delphine tells Lorraine that Percival is corrupt.

When Lorraine discovers that Percival has set them both up she goes to Delphine's apartment. Unfortunately Lorraine is too late and Delphine is lying dead strangled at the hands of Percival. We see Lorraine broken by the knowledge that she has cost Delphine her life while Nena sings a soulful rendition of Luftballons and the newscaster celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall in the background.

One of the most powerful elements of Atomic Blonde movie is that it constantly keeps you guessing about where Lorraine's loyalties actually lie. Lorraine finds Percival, retrieves the watch containing "The List" and kills him saying to him that "you didn't have to kill her." At the same time she lets him know that she is going to frame him as a double agent when it is she herself who is actually working for the Americans.

The lesbian interest themes in the Atomic Blonde movie were a late edition to the storyline as they are not part of the graphic novel The Coldest City on which Atomic Blonde is based. The addition of Lorraine and Delphine as lovers does however elevate the movie from a run of the mill action story to one that is not only an enjoyable watch but has some excellent scenes of two women appreciating each other and enjoying each other.

Read more about Atomic Blonde (2017) at IMDb

Charlize Theron as Lorraine Broughton

Sofia Boutella as Delphine Lasalle

Country of Origin: USA

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Subtitles: English, Spanish and Portuguese

Runtime: 9.17 minute clip

Initial Release: 2017

Director: David Leitch

Writers: Kurt Johnstad (screenplay), Antony Johnston (based on the Oni Press graphic novel series "The Coldest City"


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AROUND THE BLOCK (2013) - Lesbian Interest Movie

Dino and Kate

The Australian lesbian interest movie Around the Block (2013) (IMDb 5.9) features a lesbian storyline between Dino and Kate. The movie is set in Sydney and stars Christina Ricci as Dino, an American English teacher who goes to work in the underprivileged prodominantly aboriginal neighbourhood of Redfern. Dino immediately sets about engaging the kids by encouraging the class to perform Hamlet to the local community.

Dino: We do not choose to be born
but can we choose to be free?

By chance Dino meets an old friend who tells her that her ex-girfriend Kate (Andrea Demetriades) works near to the school and would like to see her. Dino begins to regularly drive past the deli where Kate works but can't quite bring herself to go in.

Dino is in a deadend relationship with Simon. She is unhappy with their normative lifestyle but hasn't been able to make the break. When the couple are out to lunch with Simon's boss she ends the relationship when Simon fails to stand up for her and allows racist comments to go by without challenge.

Still unable to muster the courage to talk to Kate, Dino goes to a gay bar. There she picks up Hannah (Ruby Rose) and has a one night stand with her. The love scene with Hannah while mostly kissing is well choreographed and occurs at around 56:45 in the movie.

Dino and Hannah Kiss 

The next day Dino goes to see Kate and invites her to the play. They talk for the first time in years. Dino tells Kate that she knows now that what they shared was real and that she still thinks about her a lot. Kate tells Dino that after five years she can't expect her to be ready to jump back into her arms.

Dino and Kate Talk About Reconciliation

Kate: Are you still making those crazy videos?
Dino: Kinda. I'm teaching drama at Redfern High
Dino: I think the students have taught me more than I've taught them
Dino: We have a performance tomorrow night. You should come
Kate: What are you doing?
Dino: What?
Dino: Simon and I broke up
Kate: What do you want me to do? Launch into your arms? What congratulate you?
Dino: I just want you to know that I never stopped thinking about you
Kate: Doesn't matter. It was such a long time ago
Kate: You don't seriously think ...
Kate: Ah Dino we can't go back
Dino: I don't know what I thought
Dino: I'm just sick of pretending to be something I'm not
Dino: What we had was real. I know that now.
Kate: What we had was five years ago.
Dino: Just tell me you don't feel it anymore and I'll walk away.
Kate: I chose to stop feeling it.

At the play Kate arrives late and sneaks in the back but not without Dino noticing her. The students receive a standing ovation for their performances especially Liam who plays Hamlet. Afterwards as people are milling around talking Kate and Dino lock eyes and smile at each other and we know that their love story is about to reignite.

Around the Block is a modern day To Sir With Love and is an engaging drama that competently highlights racial tensions and inequality in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. As a lesbian interest movie it falls a little short. The encounter between Hannah and Dino is almost superfluous to the story especially because the development of the relationship between Dino and Kate is a little too sparse.

The understated ending for Dino and Kate disappoints and would have been made more powerful with the addition of a kiss or even a conversation between Dino and Kate to cement their rekindled love. Overall though Around the Block is worth the watch and has enough happening for the main characters to hold most viewers interest. The aboriginal theme also helps to raise the status of the film Around the Block to one of social commentary.

Read more about Around the Block (2013) at IMDb

Christina Ricci as Dino

Andrea Demetriades as Kate

Ruby Rose as Hannah

Country of Origin: Australia

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Subtitles: English, Spanish and Portuguese

Runtime: 11.19 minute clip

Initial Release: 2014

Director: Sarah Spillane

Screenplay: Sarah Spillane


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WE WILL (2016) - Lesbian Interest Short Film Australia

Claire and Rachel

We Will (2016) is a lesbian interest short film set in Sydney, Australia which was made to promote awareness of gay marriage. It has received acclaim online and has been played at many marriage equality rallies.

Claire and Rachel in love in We Will (2016)

The short film concerns two young women Claire (Bianca Bradey from Starting Now) and Rachel (Madeleine Withington) who meet on a blind date and decide to pursue a relationship.

Claire and Rachel We Will (2016) Before you I never understood love

"Before you I never really understood love.
All those songs. All those films.
But then again, before you, I didn't understand how full my heart could feel."

We Will follows Claire and Rachel as a couple on variety of dates. We witness their intimacy build from their first tentative kiss to their wedding day when they have the opportunity to publically declare their love to friends and loved ones.

"Love seemed like madness
I honestly couldn't understand why anyone would put themselves through so much suffering
But then I met you
And I knew I would put up with endless misery
If it meant I could have you.
I'd climb mountains. I'd cross oceans.
You were my world."

This a sweet yet intense short film that is able to say so much in a few short minutes. It is told using a voice over alongside the beautiful melody of Stones by Bec Sandridge. This romantic short movie shines despite it's shoestring budget and is in the words of director Laura Nagy "a love letter to love itself."


Bianca Bradey - as Claire

Madeleine Withington - as Rachel

Country of Origin: Australia

Genre: Drama / Romance

Language: English

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian

Runtime: 3.17 minutes full short movie

Release Date: 2016

Director: Laura Nagy

Written By: Samuel Leighton-Dore and Nirrimi Firebrace


Other Links
Star Observer Article About We Will (2016) Short Film as Champion for Gay Marriage
Director Laura Nagy We Will (2016) Short Film Insights
Other Short Films of Lesbian Interest