Age 12: Love with a Little L
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Age 12: Love with a Little L (1991)

US Documentary

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.

🏳️‍🌈 A delicate independent or localized coming-of-age short tracking an intensely close, innocent, and highly sáfic-coded emotional bond between schoolgirls.

Cast

Nina Fonoroff
Robin Guarino
Marcel Meyers
Dianne Torr
Cathy Clarke
Moyra Davey
Moyra Davey
Andrea Fraser
Zoe Leonard
Peggy Ahwesh
Peggy Ahwesh

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