“Woman Meets Girl” will be premiering on the opening night of the Vancouver Short Film Festival on June 2, 2023 at the VIFF Centre.
In these overly politically correct times we live in I will be prevented from disembarking from my flight to Vancouver from Toronto to watch the film by gangs of angry mobs hating my description of the film as a hooker meeting the horny bookkeeper. A lack of sensitivity the crowd roars! Queer hater! Old geezer!
Should I change my slant and say 42-year-old bookkeeper Anabelle (Enuka Okuma) discovers her sensuality in a caring and dignified fashion to an 18-year-old sex worker Tessie (Chelsea Russel) and everything is just copasetic with the world. You see the word “hooker” is misogynist right? And is it right to say a bookkeeper is a horny repressed type?
Should I make it through the hostile Vancouver crowd calling me a Pat Brown resurrection and throwing “Hey Doll” refrains at me I might face the microphones and say this is a tight, suspenseful sexually charged drama about two emotionally damaged women seeking some Marvin Gaye sexual healing! And if you give me the opportunity to say I really like this short for its high tension and sensitivity I may just win an award as a film critic realizing in a generous humanistic fashion he requires gender sensitivity training. Until then and before I am sent to a re-education camp I really do love this short. Despite the cheap booze, nail extensions, cut off shorts with butt cheeks hanging out and a bookkeeper that looks like a nun! Okuma and Russel gel marvellously on-screen!
Stay tuned for my press conference at an undisclosed White Spot location where Uncle Ben’s Beer and gooseberry pie will be served!
Directed by Murry Peters.
RKS Film Rating 93/100.
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