Hollywood’s New Lesbian Plot
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Moira Donegan on Drive-Away Dolls and Love Lies Bleeding.
Love Lies Bleeding
(A24)In the last few weeks, Hollywood has given us Drive-Away Dolls (directed by Ethan Coen, who also co-wrote it in collaboration with Tricia Cooke) and Live Lies Bleeding (directed by Rose Glass who co-wrote it with Weronika Tofilska). Although very different in tone, the two movies have some striking commonalities. Both are set in the late 20th century and take familiar genres (the buddy road comedy, the erotic thriller) while featuring lesbian lead characters.
To talk about this trend, I spoke to Moira Donegan, a frequent guest of the The Time of Monsters, who sees the movies as evidence of “the lesbian plot” becoming Hollywood fare. She locates both films as exercises in nostalgia for a period when actual lesbian culture is rapidly changing.
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