European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                _ the Sampei to Gwyn  Turner co produces and portrays Max who goes after Ely played by . Brodle in go fish. Women s sexual films by William Arnold Seattle Post intelligencer he sex film erotic que which recently de buted at the Seattle International film festival is a soft Core porn movie made by and for women. The filmmakers including Lizzie Borden working girls and Monika Treut Myra ther is coming have been listening to the Long standing Avalanche of criticism that 99.9 percent of All movies Are projections of male sex fantasies. They set out to create erotica from the Point of View of a woman of the 90s," As their publicity Sheet put it. As a male reviewer i am inadequate to the task of evaluating the effectiveness of the results but i can say that i found the film fascinating. My informal poll of women viewers who caught the film at the festival confirms that it mostly delivers the goods. The first of three segments is let s talk about sex Borden s tale of a los Angeles actress Kamala Lopez Dawson who works Between acting assign ments at a ph6ne-sex parlor. She goes to extreme lengths to act out a bondage fantasy with a married Man Bryan Cran Tonone of her regular callers. The second segment the film s most visually elegant and engrossing is taboo parlor Treut s Vignette about two bisexual women Priscilla Barnes and Camilla Soeberg who go to a bizarre Hamburg sex club where they pick up a Man for an unusual and ultimately deadly night of three Way sex. The third segment Winton soup is directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law. It s a considerably less Kinky and More comedic affair about an austra Lian chinese Man Tim Lounibos trying to rekindle an affair with an old flame Hayley Man by discovering his traditional chinese love making roots. Exactly How does this Workans Eye View of erotic differ from the usual male View in her festival appearance last month Soeberg said it s mainly Atti tude and  men take eroticism very seriously but women enjoy the humor involved said the danish actress. There is really not much explicit sex Here and no frontal nudity and the eroticism comes out of the situation rather than in showing body  go fish a lesbian relationship comedy directed by Rose troche played in the Seattle festival s new directors showcase. V this is an in your face Gay and proud film shot in Grainy Low budget Black and White and cast with what appear to be primarily Amateur performers. The Story is about an unhappy Young woman named Max co producer guinevere Turner who can t get a Lover even though she is clearly the Best looking thing in town. The movie essentially follows her Pursuit of Ely . Brodean older less attractive and More sexually uptight woman As their Community of lesbian friends look on coax from the sidelines and act As a kind of greek chorus to the Progress of the affair. Gay women i talked with at the festival seemed to like go fish very much. They thought it showed the lesbian Community from the inside and in a positive Light and even enjoyed its shallowness the fact that for All its artifice Clumsy symbolism fantasy sequence sit has the soul of an old Rock Hudson Doris Day movie. Still unlike recent Gay lesbian films like the wed Ding banquet or Claire of the Moon both of which communicate an optimistic View of a new age in which sexual orientation is not a huge Factor and everyone gets along go fish depicts a Community that is so shrill in its feminism so obsessed with its own sexual identity and so self contained and closed off from the rest of society that it s More than a Little intimidating. Cafes Bays it has no plans to show Eronique and go fish on its Cir Cuit. S so wonderful a the by Kathi Georges san Francisco examiner if advertising claims for wonderbra arc True women like me should admit that what we. Want in t what we be got. That Ever since puberty weve looked at our Flat chests in the Mirror and said  we know what Beauty is after All. We be seen it on to in the movies at the Beach in the mall. And All the feminist advances did t alter the perception that in America Beautiful women have big breasts without them we feel deformed. Like most ban Tam Bosomed women in their 30s, i thought i had come to terms with my not so Well endowed a cup Chest by focusing on the positives of ring Active Clea Vage.  no backaches those c and a cup women May be smiling in the car and gun ads but they Don t fool me my Cousin Leah voluptuous by age 15, suffered Hack pain until a breast reduction operation wiped the scowl from her face and made me feel Lucky. No Sag time passes skin stretches. At the 15 year reunion All the knockout cheerleaders looked downright dumpy without Well engineered support devices or the kind of surgery even Elizabeth Taylor does t talk about. Not me. Everyone said you Haven t changed a  glancing Down i knew exactly what they meant. No hassles i was Only 6 when Bra burning made the news. I still remember these bold Sisters when too Lazy to do the laundry i go to work braless my head held High. Bras Are a nuisance an outdated remnant of male domination. They certainly did nothing for women like me. Until now. Wonderbra knows we re ready to change. Earlier this month . Newspapers were loaded with soft Core full Page ads of deep cleavage women smiling sensually in wonderbra implying this could be you. We Correct nature s  wonderbra s glories were detailed in a front Page article adjacent to a photograph of a woman involved in a sexual harassment trial. Apparently wonderbra had been All the rage in England for 30 years at Long last the padded push up brassiere had arrived in the department stores of America at the office we wondered does it work Jill who once lived in London convinced us. I bought 20," she said. My friends were shocked by the  later she confided they re very uncomfortable. All that squeezing it  i did t care. I was hooked. I went to Macy s right after work but alas it was too  we re closed the guard said. I almost cried then recovered with curiosity. How did the wonderbra sell today i asked the line went around the Block. Mostly women or their husbands. A few drag  Only in san Francisco. I walked away staring at women s chests to see if they were wearing wonderbra. I could t Tell. One woman barked what Are you looking at i did t bother explaining. Obviously she was t. I got Flowers and headed Home Flat chested As usual Side stepping trash blown by the evening wind. Wait what s this stuck in a puddle an advertising Mailer emblazoned the one and Only  i picked it up and turned it Over. A Beautiful woman in a wonderbra stared out with secret wis Dom accompanied by the poignant question who cares it it s a bad hair Day of no. They got me. I m hooked again. Look it s not that i m vulnerable to Media manipulation. I m just ready for a change. What s wrong with that Scripps Howard news serv Teo september 11,1994 sunday Page