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The Dublin Film Qlub’s ‘Around the World in the 80s’ season continues in February with a little-known lesbian classic.
Directed by Jill Godmilow in 1987, Waiting For The Moon is based on the legendary relationship between the poet Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
The film transports us back to Paris in the 1920s where a bunch of rich expatriate lesbians were having a blast. In their spare time between parties, salons, and picnics, a handful of these women wrote some of the most exciting and radical books ever published.
One of them was the poet and art patron Gertrude Stein, a close friend of Picasso, Hemingway, and the artist Edward Hopper (played by Bratpack member, Andrew McCarthy), who made a formidable team with her partner Alice B. Toklas.
Together they created a home that became a salon for creative geniuses and became the most famous lesbian couple in the world.
Although this film eliminates any signs of physical affection between the couple, we are left with a moving portrait of unshakeable love and devotion, and with the magnificent performances of the perfectly cast Linda Bassett (Calendar Girls) and Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously).
Waiting For The Moon shows as part of Dublin Film Qlub's Around the Word in the 80s season on February 18 at the New Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 at 3.30 pm (Doors open at 3.00). The screening will be followed by an open discussion