Teacher Pets: Audry’s Lesbian Melodrama Reclaims the Spotlight in New Restoration
Returning to dispel the historical erasure of queer representation in cinema is Olivia, a restoration of Jacqueline Audry’s 1951 melodrama, adapted from the only novel by Dorothy Bussy, an English teacher and translator responsible for translating all of Andre Gide’s works into English thanks to their decades spanning friendship. Besides a reclamation of early lesbian representation, the restoration is a reminder of the importance of Audry, who worked steadily as a director from 1946 to 1967, often adapting notable novels (including works by Jean-Paul Sartre and Colette) and is perhaps best remembered for first tackling Gigi (1949), which Vincente Minnelli would later churn into an Academy Award winning musical in 1958.…...
Returning to dispel the historical erasure of queer representation in cinema is Olivia, a restoration of Jacqueline Audry’s 1951 melodrama, adapted from the only novel by Dorothy Bussy, an English teacher and translator responsible for translating all of Andre Gide’s works into English thanks to their decades spanning friendship. Besides a reclamation of early lesbian representation, the restoration is a reminder of the importance of Audry, who worked steadily as a director from 1946 to 1967, often adapting notable novels (including works by Jean-Paul Sartre and Colette) and is perhaps best remembered for first tackling Gigi (1949), which Vincente Minnelli would later churn into an Academy Award winning musical in 1958.…...
- 8/20/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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