
Age 12: Love with a Little L
1991-07-12 · 23 min · ★ 8.0
This film is depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-year old girl as the platform for a meditation on forbidden desire, transgression, and Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of identity formation. Raw adolescent memories counterpoint staged scenes, exploring mechanisms of power and submission.
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- Jennifer Montgomery
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- United States of America
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