Q CINEMA PRESENTS
Q CINEMA PRESENTS
Ruthie & Connie: Every
Room in the House
1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 23, 2004
Fort Worth Public Library, 500 W. Third St. in downtown Fort Worth
Tickets are $5 at the door starting an hour before show time.
". . . wonderful. No one will leave without smiling or shedding
a tear."
-- San Francisco Examiner
"... touching and illuminating"
-- Boston Globe
"touching and wise . . . the documentary
is a textbook on how to illuminate large social issues through honest, intimate,
personal biography."
-- New York Newsday
Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deborah
Dickson, this lovely 56-minute documentary is truly superb in every way.
Funny, uplifting and discerning, Ruthie & Connie doesn't outstay
its welcome as so many documentaries nowadays do by at least a half an hour.
Here noted doc director Dickson turns her cameras on two grandmas who've
been friends for 40 years and lovers for 25: Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz.
"We've been through it all," one notes. "Bogey and Bacall
have nothing on us." They certainly don't.
This duo, when they finally realized they were made for each other,
gave up spouses, children, friends and stability to find happiness. An added
incentive: Connie notes of her hetero married days, "I never had an
orgasm for 18 years."
"We're like a bicycle built for two where you don't have to tell
the other rider to start with her left foot," Ruth adds.
Happy now, with homes both in Brooklyn and Florida, the gals relate
how they first realized they loved each other, how they first kissed, plus
the pain they felt and caused themselves and their families when they moved
in together (yet kept separate bedrooms for show). Additionally, there was
the prejudice that was spewed upon them by the community. But they survived,
became successful activists, appeared on The Phil Donahue Show, and
reunited with most of their kids.
So if you're lesbian, gay, bisexual, a drag queen, a pre-op, a post-op,
or homosexually impaired, this is the film for you if you want to learn
how to feel great about yourself.
Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House screens at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 23, 2003 at the Fort Worth Public Library, 500 W. Third St. in downtown Fort Worth. Tickets are $5 at the door starting an hour before show time.
