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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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"
Other Links
Atomic Blonde (2017) Film on Wikipedia
Other Lesbian Interest Movies
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