Ftench Melodrama
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Queerguru revists OLIVIA a 1951 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry that has been called a “landmark of lesbian representation’
TURN BACK TIME : Queerguru revisits OLIVIA (also known as The Pit of Loneliness) a 1951 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry, and based on the 1950 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Dorothy Bussy. It has been called a “landmark of lesbian representation. Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal,…

