Saturday Afternoon Matinee

Liana (1983) has some of the best intimate speaking and lovemaking scenes.  As usual there is a surrounding plot that is somewhat pro forma and to me unappealing. If only someone could pull the best of the films I've posted here in the past months and weave a tapestry of discovery of another's deepest essences with complex intimacies and a positive gay ending.

Plot

Lianna (Linda Griffiths) is the wife of a college professor teaching film and media at a University in a small to midsized town in New Jersey, and the mother of two children. In an attempt to give her husband more freedom - at his request - and cure her boredom in being a housewife, she takes a child psychology class with her friend Sandy.

Becoming more involved in the class and interacting with the female professor, she realizes she has a crush on the instructor, Ruth. Ruth invites Lianna over to her home for dinner and they talk into the night, Lianna explaining that she was a graduate student at one time who married the professor. They eventually sleep together and begin an affair, complicated by Lianna's husband's affair with one of his students. Lianna expresses interest in leaving her husband for Ruth, but Ruth backs away, warning Lianna that living with another woman would jeopardize her career as a child psychologist - and she has a partner in another city.

Lianna leaves her husband after a particularly ugly fight to live alone for the first time in years. Lianna visits a lesbian bar and attempts to connect with other lesbians through a string of affairs to explore her new identity. The film explores her loneliness, her changing relationships with her children, and her new relationship with Sandy, who is shocked at Lianna's revelations at first, but slowly begins to accept it and support Lianna.

Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lianna#C…


Sorry but this is the best that the Tube of You had to offer and the best of the sequence is lost due to editing (shrug).  It is on Netflix streaming and Amazon rent-a-vid though. (smiles)





Hmmm at what music to play for you my sweet readers this morning … (stretches) (considers) …





Not the best pianist, or recording, or performance, but it needed a woman's touch.


My bleary eyes wander looking for adoration and intimacy


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Smiling quietly to herself the woman perches straight-backed on the wall's edge watching the flowers in the garden sway from the slow and heated breath of summer.