The last three movies I’ve seen (Lost in Translation, The Good Thief, Matchstick Men) all featured middle-aged-to-old men in intimate relationships with women much, much younger. None of the relationships included orgasms. Two of the three movies included “try it, you’ll like it” advice on parenting from experienced men.

While this is an interesting twist on the theme of the affair with the younger woman, it leaves me unsatisfied.

The only movie I’ve seen out of the last ten or twenty or so that met Alison Bechdel’s basic lesbian criteria…

1) The movie features at least two women
2) Who talk to each other
3) About something besides a man

… was The Core, where the two female characters (a pilot and an air traffic controller) have a two-second exchange about landing a plane.

If that’s all it took to constitute basic gay criteria for a movie (that it contain at least two male characters – who talk to each other – about something besides a woman) then all the movies I watch would be high camp.

Any suggestions for relieving the monotony?

[originally transmitted by e-mail September 28, 2003]

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