Damned If You Don't

Synopsis

Beautifully shot in black and white, it blends conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voiceovers to create an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. It begins with footage from a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces. As the two women's lives come closer to joining, voiceovers from the biography of a 16th century lesbian nun and the reminiscences of a woman's closeted romances at a Catholic school flesh out the theme. When the two women finally meet and make love, the woman's careful unwrapping of the nun's complicated prison of clothing is both foreplay and liberating metaphor.

Main Cast

Peggy Healey

The Nun

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Ela Troyano

The Other Woman

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Makea MacDonald

Voiceovers

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Su Friedrich
Camera	Director of Photography	Su Friedrich
Editing	Editor	Su Friedrich
Sound	Sound	Su Friedrich
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