Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan To Play Lesbian Lovers

Why not? You think Winslet is too old?

I want to see this, the story of the solitary female amateur paleontologist discovering the "Jurassic Coast" is true.

Oh, they are making the Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor love story?

Aren't we in the age of "straight women can't play lesbian women"?

BORING!!!!!!

Why can't they make a lesbian story I'd actually want to watch?

Come on, enough with the Ladies On Fire and Ann Lister costume dramas, don't you women want people to stay awake long enough to enjoy these projects?

So this has been sitting on a shelf for awhile now?

I think it looks good

Is Kate playing her mother?

I honestly think they look like they could be related.

Loved how Winslet desperately campaigned for an Oscar and on e she got it she's been nominated once in 12 years. In Supporting.

Interesting that Call Me By Your Name, a story about a 17-18 year old and a 22 year old having a relationship, is branded as pedophilia propaganda and used as an excuse to say gay culture glorifies pedophilia and that all gay men are pedos, but a story about a lesbian relationship between a young girl and a woman old enough to be her mother gets no criticism whatsoever. Oliver and Elio only had a four year age difference and yet people STILL call it immoral pedophilia. These people have a 20+ age difference and yet I've yet to see anybody say a word.

Gay men have it way harder than lesbians and fuck anybody who says differently.

It looks like a well done film. Subject can also be seen as Oscar bait and maybe they could have casted someone like Paulson instead of straight actresses. In the end it's down to ticket sales.

r11, wasn't Armie Hammer's character supposed to be older than 22? And, for every person calling it pedophile propaganda, there was someone else lionizing the movie. It was nominated for many Oscars and won best screenplay.

And how old is Saoirse's character supposed to be? She doesn't look like a little girl at all.

Older lesbians pray on younger lesbians all the time and nobody says a word, but if a gay man even looks at a man who is one year younger or older than him, everyone involved is instantly labeled a nonce. Proof of who is more oppressed.

r14, there are more abuse cases involving older men and younger boys than ones involving older women and younger women. Why do you think the Boy Scouts covered up thousands of abuse cases while the Girl Scouts didn't?

I don't get gay men who think trashing lesbians is the way to build up gay men.

If you read the Guardian article linked above, there was only a 10 year difference in their ages -- hardly "old enough to be her mother."

They did start corresponding when the younger of the two was 14, but there is no proof whatsoever that there was a sexual relationship.

R14, lots of women "pray" for younger women. Perhaps you should look up the word "prey."

Didn't Winslet play a lezzie in Beautiful Creatures?

Exactly, R15.

Men gay or straight are many more times likely to sexually attack, hurt and abuse another person. Records show it. Whether the reason is systemic, or socioeconomic, or biological, is beside the point. It happens that way and has for all of recorded time, and that’s that. Women don’t nearly as often rape, or beat, or kidnap, or torture and kill other people without serious provocation. Of course there is less fear surrounding an imbalance of power in lesbian or female-female relationships.

Not to mention the fact that women young and old all share the long experience of being treated as the submissive gender designed as a sexual punching-bag, meaning that in all female-female relationships (sexual/lesbian or not) is an implicit acknowledgment a rare chance to enjoy a balance of power better equalised.

This is idealistic and a simplification, but generally holds true in most cases besides the anomalous Eileen Wournos-type deals.

Awards bait.

BO-RING!

Please please don't let either of them do any nudity! Winslet would get her baps and bush out even in a kids movie, and no one needs to see Ronan's little fried eggs and orange minge!

The sight of Winslet urinating was too much.

She is veering into scary Emma Thompson territory.

Kate Winslet’s pubes in Jude were thick and coppery.

I loved God’s Own Country

Why do we trash lesbians?

We love lesbians. I can't stand Emma Thompson

And it's white lesbians. Like the media isn't already saturated with them.

I want two black lesbians tonguing each other down and eating each other out on camera.

Grace Jones and Lupita Nyong’o?

This movie has been sitting on the shelf for a year or two, it stars an actress who received a lead actress oscar nomination just last year, yet has no fanfare & is being dumped at the end of the summer. It's a turkey.

Side note: Ronan is apparently still in Jack Lowden's Instagram feed; even though he's rather dull as an actor, I thought DL was certain she was a lesbian?

Lesbian movies have reached its pinnacle at Blue Is the Warmest Color. I don't want to see more cunt licking thereafter.

And Saoirse seems to be very good at sucking air out of every movie she's in - too dead serious to be enjoyable in every one of them.

R28 It comes out in November, not at the end of summer.

I’m a lesbian who wants more lesbian mainstream movies, but I agree with R5.

I mean, seriously? Another dusty period drama? Another reheated script no-one picked up for a decade? More Kate Winslet?

We need better media representation.

Killing Eve?

R25 Some of my favourite movies of the 90s starred Emma Thompson but she has evolved into a whining, hypocritical, loud shrew that it has killed the pleasure I previously enjoyed.

So it's the new Carol??

[quote]the story of the solitary female amateur paleontologist discovering the "Jurassic Coast" is true.

It is, but she wasn't a lesbian to anyone's knowledge. Francis Lee has said he's aware of this but if straight people can films about gay historical figures portraying them as straight, he doesn't see any reason why he can't do the same in reverse and turn straight historical figures gay. Ha.

Actually I have seen the trailer and I think Kate Winslet has the right level of highly emotional ham to play this.

Will they have accents like Billy Burden in [italic]Grace and Favour[/italic]?

One can only hope, R37.

Saw this and it's passable, but only just. Winslet's character doesn't crack a smile throughout the movie, and it also seems like she put on a lot of weight, which I'm sure is historically accurate for the role, but removes any potential sexiness.

As for the real Mary Anning's sexuality, she wasn't known to be gay, but she wasn't known to be straight either. It's not a far stretch to think she might have been a lesbian.

Saw this on demand. I thought it was very good. Francis Lee is so talented, and the actresses were great

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When this lesbian drama was being promoted at the Toronto film festival, Saoirse and her alleged “boyfriend” were seen going on a date in London. Oh boy don’t you love the irony.

We live in a world where Jennifer Lawrence, Brie Larson, and Emma Stone have Oscars. Saoirse ain’t stopping till she gets one.

[quote]Saoirse ain’t stopping till she gets one.

She should have won for BROOKLYN.

I've never seen Brooklyn but snooty Brie did nothing special in "Room". Good but not great. And that French chick should have won over Stoner for "Elle".

The other French babe should have won over that tacky, over-pampered Lawrence for "Amour".

I think Alicia Vikander was less deserving than Larson, Stone, or Lawrence. There, I said it!

Didn't Alicia mainly win for her role as that robot? Besides, her category was really weak.

Correct Actress/Supporting Actress Oscar Winners 2010 - 2020 (from the nominees only)

2010: Annette Bening/Helena Bonham Carter

2011: Meryl/Octavia

2012: Emmanuelle Riva/Sally Field

2013: Blanchett/Lupita

2014: Julianne Moore/Pat Arquette

2015: Saorise Ronan/Alicia V

2016: Isabelle Hubbert/Viola Davis

2017: Frances McD/ Laurie Metcalfe

2018: Olivia/Emma Stoner

2019: Renee/Scarlett Jo

2020: Viola/Maria Bakalova

At least they have more chemistry than Cate and Rooney in Carol. I didn’t buy those 2 at all.

I thought Cate and Rooney had chemistry. I love Carol.

[quote]I think Alicia Vikander was less deserving than Larson, Stone, or Lawrence. There, I said it!

She won in Supporting and deserved it for THE DANISH GIRL.

It was a lead performance and only won because of category fraud

I watched it as my first movie for 2021.

I enjoyed it. It was a bit slow in the first half, but picked up at the end. I did like Portrait of a Lady on Fire better, but it was an interesting look at the isolation Mary Anning must of felt at times.

On a side note, Winslet looked good and there was quite an eye-opening sex scene.

I enjoyed it because I was able to see James McArdle's dick. It was a bit of a slog, otherwise.

I don’t understand why every lesbian movie has to involve corsets.

The performances were solid, but it felt like they forgot to write most of the script.

Oh dearing myself. *must've

I agree, R55, the script could've been stronger. I felt a little disconnected from each character.

R55

The sex scene was horrible. Homely Saoirse’s little cheeks up in Kate’s face.

Glad Winslet's latest desperation campaign of linking this movie to the metoo movement in the hopes of getting some awards failed miserably.

I liked this movie but it does seem to have lesbian relationship stereotype known, including, spoiler alert, a variation of the UHaul. Plus long lingering looks without sex, a flirty ex girlfriend, salve, and warm compresses.

What Uhaul R60?

R3 I agree. But Winslet then went on to shit on both after it became unpopular to have worked for them. That's the point.

[quote] We live in a world where Jennifer Lawrence, Brie Larson, and Emma Stone have Oscars. Saoirse ain’t stopping till she gets one.

She'll probably play a disabled person in some of downer Oscar bait film to get her Oscar.

"seems like she put on a lot of weight, which I'm sure is historically accurate for the role, but removes any potential sexiness."

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you are a man. "Sexiness" is not just in looks but I'm guessing you don't understand that.

Saw the movie, I really, REALLY wanted to like it, but I was disappointed.

Mary Anning was a groundbreaking and revolutionary paleontologist, and her life story is interesting, but the filmmakers just aren't interested in the most interesting thing about her - her discovery of an ancient world just sitting there under everyone's feet. They're interested in her isolation and her being at odds with society, and used this imaginary lez romance to explore it, the groundbreaking work is just something they used to make the audience feel sorry for her.

Plus, they used an obvious body double for Winslet in the nude scenes - I mean when the character is show nude it's always from the neck down. Cheap-ass cheat, at least CGI Winslet's head on!

R65 Those were Kate’s tits.

I’ll never forget the image of that scrawny girl’s butt cheeks firmly planted on Kate’s chin.

If it was Kate, R66, why were her face and her tits never in the same shot?

R68 IDK but I’ve seen all her other nude roles and those were hers.

[quote]If it was Kate, [R66], why were her face and her tits never in the same shot?

They are- during the scene where Ronan is going down on her, right before she puts her fanny on her face.

Does Kate eat Saoirse ?

Kate could eat a horse.

Rolls eyes at R14. Oppression wars.

This movie ended up being a real flop.

It was no "God's Own Country," that's for sure.

The first half interiors were very darkly lit so I was glad went went to the beach. I was a bit shocked when Kate had her self-bathing scene right in front of her mother.

R71 Kate eats twice, Saoirse once.

How are Kate's boobs holding up? They were already sagging when she unnecessarily got them out in "Iris" 20 years ago..

R75 I was a bit shocked when Kate urinated on screen in that film whose name I've forgotten.

R78 I was surprised Cate Blanchett filmed a scene on the toilet where she's drying her fanny or ass in "Notes On A Scandal". Was completely unnecessary.

R77 They looked surprisingly good and sturdy like in the old days. Do they bounce back after having been a milk factory?

R78 R79 I'm not seeing the problem.

La vie d'Adèle is the best lesbian film, mainly because of the sex scenes. I masturbated a lot for them.

[quote] her fanny or ass

R79 Were Cate's visible on camera like Kate's streaming urine?

Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby have done a lesbian period piece movie called The World To Come. By the way, I like both those actresses. Remember Disobedience with Rachel Weisz spitting in Rachel McAdams's mouth. That was hot. And it wasn't a period piece, so good on them.

R83 no. But some dirty bird on YouTube added a fart noise to the scene!

What movie does Winslet pish in?

R85 "Holy Smoke!" 1999

See www.aznude.com

Not Kate's first time at the rodeo.

Winslet should have won the Oscar for "Sense and Sensibility". She didn't deserve it for "The Reader" where she was good but not outstanding.

She was excellent in "Eternal Sunshine" but Imelda Staunton should have won for "Vera Drake".

R88 Shit. She should have won for Titanic.

No R89 Dame Judi should have won for "Mrs Brown"

I watched this the other day. Wow, what a bore

R82, Blue is the Warmest Color was overrated. Plus, there wasn't a bunch of chemistry with the actresses. They were going through the motions, i.e. put your hand here, thrust here...was a bore.

[quote]The performances were solid, but it felt like they forgot to write most of the script.

^^ Seconded. Or thirded. I've lost count in this thread.

I finally watched this yesterday and was disappointed. As many have said, it felt like a lot of the story was missing. Mary's longing was clear and developed, but Charlotte's arc -- from depressed wife to passionate lover -- was weirdly sudden and unexplained. It felt like several scenes that might have established how/when Charlotte develops feelings for Mary were left on the cutting-room floor.

To the poster who asked about the U-Haul, I'm not R60 but I assume [SPOILERS FOLLOW] he/she meant Charlotte basically moving Mary into her London home as a "surprise."

And that ending was a huge lazy cop-out, IMO. "We can't figure out how to end this movie, so we'll just leave it completely vague and let the audience make something up on their own."

I agree with the other posters eager to see a really great non-period lesbian film. A happy ending would be nice, too.

I thought she was invited for a visit and then Suzuki said here is a room you can live in from now on. And Kate so now way I am not a bird in a gilded cage.