Saturday Night Live took shots at films like Ammonite, Portrait of A Lady on Fire and The World to Come in a sketch featuring Carey Mulligan and Heidi Gardner as secret lovers.
The sketch, which took on a trailer format, called out a common trend featured in recent lesbian stories. While the recent titles have received praise for bringing lesbian romance to the big screen, a common criticism is that stories about women in love often take place in past eras, never in a modern-day setting.
In the sketch Mulligan played an ill woman who finds herself in the company of another woman, played by Gardner. As is the case with the aforementioned films, Mulligan and Gardner begin to build a romantic relationship defined by grazing fingers and seaside imagery.
The fictional film, titled Lesbian Period Drama, stars “two straight actresses who dared not to wear makeup,” a disembodied voice said.
The sketch, which took on a trailer format, called out a common trend featured in recent lesbian stories. While the recent titles have received praise for bringing lesbian romance to the big screen, a common criticism is that stories about women in love often take place in past eras, never in a modern-day setting.
In the sketch Mulligan played an ill woman who finds herself in the company of another woman, played by Gardner. As is the case with the aforementioned films, Mulligan and Gardner begin to build a romantic relationship defined by grazing fingers and seaside imagery.
The fictional film, titled Lesbian Period Drama, stars “two straight actresses who dared not to wear makeup,” a disembodied voice said.
- 4/11/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
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