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Best Film at Sundance?

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (13)

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Let’s hope Dustin catches this one.

With a bit of an Earth Girls Are Easy (Whatever happened to Geena Davis?) vibe, Madeleine Olnek’s feature debut Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same looks like it will be filled with delicious, campy cheese. The film is premiering at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and tells the story of Jane (Lisa Haas), a shy, greeting card store worker who falls in love with lesbian alien, Zoinx (Susan Ziegler) — not realizing that Zoinx (Der, totally an alien name.) is not of her own planet. The ladies are followed and observed by a couple of Men in Black type government agents (Dennis Davis, Alex Karpovsky) and presumably, hilarity ensues. The film promises to “…embrace the intrinsic hilarity of lesbian life and DIY filmmaking to tell a story about love that transcends galaxies.”

Here’s the Ed Wood-ish trailer which doesn’t show much content but still manages to tickle my anticipatory receptors:

“Just because they’re aliens doesn’t mean they can’t be dates.”









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Comments

Well, I know of at least one Perspectives on Film professor at a North Texas University who would love this film.

Posted by: RobP at January 21, 2011 5:07 PM

True story- I work with the mother of this movie's editor. She is going to Sundance for the week, and I am extremely jealous. Funny though, she didn't mention the film's title when she spoke about why she's going. I wonder why?

Posted by: logar at January 21, 2011 5:11 PM

Oh, you zany lesbians! What kind of mischief will you get into this time?

Posted by: Paultera at January 21, 2011 6:10 PM

...embrace the intrinsic hilarity of lesbian life...

Now, I've never been a lesbian. Not even in a "Hey, I'm a douchey bro who jokes that he's a lesbian in a man's body, because I'm too dim to acknowledge the influence that gender has on sexuality and I frequently reduce people to their most base impuses HAHAHA" kind-of way. Sooooo, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about here. But...

...isn't the implication that life as a lesbian is inherently wrought with hilarity a little insulting?

No? It isn't? No, okay. I was just...forget I said anything.

Posted by: superasente at January 21, 2011 7:31 PM

Did anyone else get a "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" vibe from this?

Posted by: bleujayone at January 21, 2011 8:59 PM

(Whatever happened to Geena Davis?)

She divorced Jeff Goldblum and married Renny Harlin.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at January 21, 2011 9:52 PM

She was hot, AvB.

Posted by: Cindy at January 21, 2011 10:19 PM

I thought that her mouth finally seceded from the rest of her face, much like the South did to the rest of the United States.

Posted by: duckandcover at January 21, 2011 11:01 PM

Zoinx!

Now I know what Shaggy was talking about in Scooby Doo!

Posted by: frank_247 at January 22, 2011 2:43 AM

the intrinsic hilarity of lesbian life

Now that just sounds wrong.

Posted by: csb at January 22, 2011 7:02 AM

Well, "Jane (Lisa Haas), a shy, greeting card store worker" definitely does NOT look like a Lesbian.
This is so unrealistic. Where is the suspension of disbelief?

Posted by: OldSchool60 at January 22, 2011 11:15 AM

Jane Curtin Coneheads

Posted by: logan at January 22, 2011 1:25 PM

Anna von Beav:...then Geena Davis divorced Renny to marry an actual Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. Think about the perks--free Botox and regular "tune-ups".

Posted by: True_Blue at January 22, 2011 5:33 PM