US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
1993
Crush
with Cruel
Friday
Jun 10, 1994
@
9:00 pm
10th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertakes the assignment and becomes attracted to the novelist’s 15 year old daughter, leading to stormy emotions.
This piercing modern fable entwines the lives of a beautiful adolescent girl, a predatory femme fatale, a wheelchair-ridden critic, and a once-successful novelist. That is, until the lives of the three women and one man are simultaneously shattered. Wreaking sexual havoc is brash Lane (Marcia Gay Harden), whose mercurial allegiances with her friend, lover, and a teenage nymph named Angela (Caitlin Bossley) sow frustration and paranoia, forcing a dramatic confrontation fraught with erotic tensions.
Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with
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Cruel
First-time director Desi del Valle explores how the myth of white supremacy permeates the deepest levels of personal relationships between people of color. The film deals with a Mexican-American woman’s attempt to reconcile her insecurities when her Chicana ex-girlfriend begins to date a white woman. It is homophobia, however, and not racism, that Isabel (Kristen Ochoa) finally must deal with, as her rejection by her family makes her failed relationship with Melanie (Susan Papa) all the more difficult.