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Thursday May 3
7:15 pm
Regal 18
U.K,2006,Video,73min.
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Directed by:
Lisa Gornick
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Leave it to Lisa Gornick to turn lesbian baby-fever squarely on its head. She’s the wisecracking
Brit who – in her debut feature Do I Love You (which exhibited in the MGLFF
2003 line-up) - blamed a couple’s break-up on their hideous white leather couch. New
movie, new dyke drama, same infectious blend of wry voice-over worrying-aloud and
hilariously staged sexual and social mishaps. To name a few: when our heroines Sasha
and Maya look for a sperm donor, they go cruising for strangers on the street like a pair
of horny queens. When they set their sights on a sleepy-eyed hunk, polite conversation
nearly devolves into a fist-fight. And when they liquor the hunk up and drag him home...
Well, that’s telling too much. It’s not just these two with pangs of motherhood, either.
Springing to life from Sasha’s imagination (she’s a compulsive cartoonist) are two sisters:
Gillian, who serial-seduces barely-legal airheads to impregnate her, and Fiona, who’s
“trying” like clockwork with her kind-hearted husband, but mired in hysterically
unexamined marital misery.
The three stories interweave throughout, anchored by
Gornick’s incisive musings on parenthood and sexuality and witty hand-inked cartoons
(the directors own drawings) that lay bare the uncomfortable subtext. Gornick and
Raquel Cassidy (who both starred in Do I Love You) lead the knock-out ensemble, all of
whom bring sharp comedy and raw emotion to their roles, each offering a fresh take on
the film’s deceptively simple theme: the more you think about getting pregnant, the
harder it gets.
Career Synopsis
Lisa Gornick was born and lives in London. Her first feature, Do I Love You? (2003)
played in the 5th Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Having first started out as a
stand-up comic in London, Gornick eventually made the transition behind the camera.
She has made 5 short films, and has written two plays for the stage. Tick Tock Lullaby is
her second feature
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