Los Angeles (dpa) – Lesbianism is rare on the big screen. One exception in recent years is “Blue Is The Warmest Colour”, which provided the main actresses Lea Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos with very long, explicit sex scenes of conversation.
Last touched “Carol” about a lesbian love in the prudish 50s – with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara – with subtle allusions and strong characters. Even “Free Hero – All love is equal” tells a gripping tale of two dissimilar women who fight for their rights. The American Oscar winner Julianne Moore ( “Still Alice”) and her Canadian colleague Ellen Page ( “Juno”) embody the tough policewoman Laurel Hester and their much younger girlfriend Stacie Andree, who are confronted with a deadly cancer diagnosis, with prejudice and bureaucrats .
the ingredients for a strong Drama agree: a true story, top actor, the script of “Philadelphia” author Ron Nyswaner, the background music of Oscar winner Hans Zimmer. But “Free Hero – All love is equal” tears not really with. For rewinds director Peter Sollett ( “Nick and Norah – Soundtrack a night”). Too conventional and predictable from
What makes the love story the film worth watching, is the history of women. She was a template for the short film “Free Hero” of the Oscar for best short documentary took of 2008.
Moore plays the confident, but privately locked policewoman Laurel Hester, who conceals her colleagues that she is a lesbian. With nearly 20 years younger girlfriend Stacie Andree, it relates a house in a suburban housing development in New Jersey. The dream of home ownership with dog and partner bursts quickly, as the official cancer. The last wish of the dying woman: the girlfriend to get her pension, as is usual with spouses in the event of death. The struggle for equality before the authorities is a race against time.
Moore plays with his usual intensity, but her moving “Still Alice” -Portrait as Alzheimer’s patient can not match the 55-year-old. There is a lack of chemistry with Page, the strong love of the couple is rarely expressed. More convincing are Moores scenes with their male counterparts. Michael Shannon plays a detective who stands up for women. But the strongest (side) role has calculated the comedy star Steve Carell as a gay, Jewish activist who puts the struggle of women in the spotlight.
For Page, the film was a “very personal and very moving matter” as the 29-year-old Canadian of German press agency told: two years ago, the actress had made her homosexuality public. Now operating with as co-producer on “Free Hero”. They wanted to celebrate with the film the two women who had something “very important for the human rights in the US” done, said Page.
Shortly before her death in 2006, with 49 years successfully fought Hester before a Committee actually pension for her partner. It was one of the milestones on the way to the approval of same-sex marriage in the United States. Andree would still live in the common home, we learn in the credits. The story is strong, all the weaknesses of the script and style despite
(Free Hero -. All love is equal, USA 2015, 103 min, ages 6, by Peter Sollett, with Julianne Moore, Ellen Page. , Michael Shannon, Steve Carell)
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