The movie, Liz in September, is an unusual story about two women, one a heterosexual, married woman named Eva, and the other, a homosexual, single woman named Liz. The audience is immediately swept into the story of Eva as it opens with her finding out about her husband's affair. The two female characters meets by chance after Eva experiences some trouble with her car as she is beginning a vacation road trip. He husband was supposed to be accompanying her; however, he is off, secretly, or so he assumes, tending to his affair. After realizing she will have to stay overnight until her car is fixed, Eva finds a room to rent in an isolated hotel full of women, and Liz is one of them. While at the hotel, Liz and Eva quickly develop a very sexually charged friendship. Eva's ability to move from her existing, heterosexual sexuality to exploring her curiosity in a lesbian relationship with Liz seems a little far-fetched. Maybe Eva is driven by disappointment and sadness in her marriage to an unfaithful man; however, I had a difficult time believing that her transformation from heterosexual to homosexual could be real. The sweet friendship between the two women does end in a lesbian relationship and the two spend Liz's last remaining days madly in love, although poorly portrayed in my opinion. Eva always seems to keep an awkward distance from her new found lover. The movie is filmed on a beautiful, secluded beach which helps prompt a very sexy atmosphere for the women staying at the hotel. It seems possible, that on a whim, Eva could have been swept up in her emotion, curiosity, and the beautiful setting, to explore a homosexual night, but to have abandoned her husband for a homosexual relationship, I didn't find plausible. The conclusion of the movie was altogether a bit unresolved.
Review of Liz in September
