The Owls

The Owls (2010)

  • 33% want to see it
    (24 ratings)

Pioneering feminist filmmaker Cheryl Dunye directed this independent drama about four women struggling to make sense of their past and live down one particular evening. Iris (Guinevere Turner) and M.J. (V.S. Brodie) are a Lesbian couple who live in Los Angeles, while their friends Lily (Lisa… More

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Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Gay & Lesbian

Critic Reviews

  • Sarah Boslaugh, Playback:stl

    ...uses a deliberately disjunctive, fourth-wall-breaking approach to telling the story of four 40-something lesbians... bound together by a violent incident in their past.

  • Fr. Chris Carpenter, Movie Dearest

    (Writer-director) Dunye intentionally set out to imitate "pathological lesbian" films such as "The Children's Hour" and "The Killing of Sister George"...Do we really need to project such images in this more liberated day and age?

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