Review of Loving Annabelle (2007) by Hannah M — 30 Sep 2012
I was pretty thoroughly unimpressed with this movie. I have no idea what it was trying to accomplish. Its plot reads like a thinly veiled excuse to show lots of lesbian sex, except there wasn't that much sex when it came right down to it.
It could have been an attempt at a coming-of-age story, except the teenage character really never came of age or learned anything. It could have been a character study, except that characterization was never developed.
It could have been a drama about forbidden love, except that the forbidenness of it is, oddly, never really discussed. It could have been a groundbreaking LGBT movie, except for the fact that it painted all the lesbians in the story as sex-crazed and vaguely predatory for no particular reason.
In short, it feels like a movie that was trying to go so many directions that it never made it to any of its goals. This script needed a few more rewrites before it was ready to shoot.
This review of Loving Annabelle (2007) was written by Hannah M on 30 Sep 2012.
Loving Annabelle has generally received positive reviews.
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