LOOKING THROUGH LILLIAN
2001

February 28, 2002
Cinequest San Jose Film Festival
USA
English

Notes: ".....film is populated with beautiful people.....no real story.....Lillian meets with a rich guy played by Sam Bottoms where he dresses up in women's clothing and she has sex with him while wearing a strap-on.....director and producer on hand.....it looked beautiful and was stylish with slow motion work.....way too pompous.....stoplight changes from red to green to show her new life beginning.....A kite crashes in slow motion to show the impending collapse of her relationship.....lead actress is stunning and nearly always wears some sort of lingerie.....Bottoms is brave in his role--he gets sodomized onscreen.....and he is shown in his full naked glory.....these guys are way too proud of themselves for having a cross-dressing man.....the other man is a too-good-to-be-true writer who wears stylish clothes and just wants to cuddle when spending the night with the girl.....woman not a great actress.....she had no moderation--either hot or cold, blank or loud.....she certainly is attractive.....the woman goes through a change, but basically its about a woman who fucks a guy for money then falls in love with the guy who is leaving for Italy, then she leaves Bottoms who begs her to come back.....she claims to want to stop being looked through and wants to be looked at.....the good guy didn't really know her and the old guy didn't care about her....in fact, all their sex was with him in front of her.....he couldn't see her.....well shot....maybe a bit heavy-handed with song lyrics perfectly matching the scene like on THE REAL WORLD....."