The Watermelon Woman

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DVD Details

  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 31, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1996
  • Label: First Run Features

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Directed by
Edited by
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 863
Rating: 3.5/4 -- It's a film of such multitudinous interests and storytelling pursuits that its unfolding replicates the ecstasy of newfound romance. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Nov 7, 2016
...[A] wry and exhilarating comedy, at once romantic and sharply observant....Dunye has much to express, and she does it with humor, energy, wit, passion and perception...
Los Angeles Times
Mar 28, 1997
The Watermelon Woman can be awkward and clunky, and its shoestring budget sometimes shows. But it's also fresh and frequently very funny. Full Review
Winnipeg Free Press
Feb 22, 2019
Rating: 5/5 -- [A] sweetly sardonic, pretension-busting look at an African-American lesbian filmmaker negotiating our multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-sexual, multi-multi world. Full Review
Killer Movie Reviews
Jan 19, 2017
Rating: B -- The narrative, abot a black lesbian director, is elliptical and circular, borrowing its format from Jim McBride's seminal David Holtzman's Diary, at the end of which, the viewers realize they have been watching a fake documentary. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Oct 31, 2006
Rating: 4/5 -- By the end of the film, the lines between reality and fiction are blurred in that Cheryl in the film and Dunye herself with the film itself are both making points about black women in film. Full Review
Gay Essential
Sep 15, 2019
Rating: 7/10 -- ...a unique film and a real time capsule of the 1990s when movie geeks hung out at video stores. Full Review
Playback:stl
Apr 21, 2016

Product Description:

A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal quest to uncover the mammy's identity, much to the confusion of her white, middle-class girlfriend. Features a guest bit by Paglia as herself, pontificating on the rich symbolism of mammies and watermelons.

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Product Info

  • UPC: 720229917230
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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