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Titles can provide the, at first unsuspecting, viewer with a salient, ambiguous message. The opening shot - a train speeding with grating wheels through the night - also puts the viewer directly onto the wrong track. Intercultural relationships are always tense: one partner has found her destiny (the chance possessive pronoun is unavoidable in a lesbian context) in a far and often confusingly strange foreign country, while the other has the bonus of the happiness she dreamed of dropped into her lap, in surroundings she has known and trusted from childhood. The dilemma can arise in the most bizarre places. While the lovers try to find the optimal position in the bathtub, the water getting ever cooler, the conversation turns involuntarily to that subject they would rather avoid. ‘What if I have to go back to Australia!?’ ‘Shut up will you, my periods are already irregular.’ An insoluble problem like this can best be laughingly eliminated. A seance with Japanese tarot cards ends in practical considerations about living together, domiciliary permits, tax advantages, pension rights. And of course, bath time ends with liberating lovemaking.
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Erik Daams
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Scenario, performance Izumo Marou & J.J., Production Shu Lea Cheang/Superdyke Inc.
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