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reviews
Who Makes the Rules? And why are they so fun to break?
Review by Candace Moore, Curve, March 2007
Karen Everett’s autobiographical documentary, which centers
around her long-terms commitment to primary partner Erin and their
agreed-upon practice of ethical non-monogamy, is brave, indulgent
and ultimately endearing. This film is a self-reflective rumination
on one queer woman’s attempt to balance multiple lovers: for
the wry-humored Erin, for the camera (Everett’s obsessive
filming even warrants an on-screen intervention), for her best friend
Phyllis Christopher, (a famous photographer of lesbian sex and the
films’ most engrossing character), for close friends Jackie
Strano and Shar Rednour (the frank and funny lesbian couple who
filmed How to Fuck in High Heels and Bend Over Boyfriend), for those
women and men who grace Everett’s life for a few dates or
more, and for the ecstatic, confounded state of being in love itself,
an often fleeting phenomenon she sets out to capture, if only on
video.
Everett whittled down more than 200 hours of personal footage
into what now stands as an hour-long piece de resistance on lesbian
polyamory.
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