
Damned If You Don't
It begins with footage from a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces. As the two women's lives come closer to joining, voiceovers from the biography of a 16th century lesbian nun and the reminiscences of a woman's closeted romances at a Catholic school flesh out the theme.
- Year: 1987
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Drama, Romance
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- Keyword: black and white, sexual repression, woman director, connect to real life, religious institution, lesbian nun, sapphic, lesbian history, voice-over
- Director: Su Friedrich
- Cast: Peggy Healey, Ela Troyano, Makea MacDonald, Martina Siebert, Cathy Quinlan