Salmonberries (1992, Germany)

A strange and slow film about two very different women who eventually discover that they have something in common; in fact the need to discover something about their past, and a lesbian inclination.

Roswitha (Rosel Zech) is the librarian in an obscure Alaskan village; K. D. Lang plays Kotzebue, apparently a young man but she reveals herself to be a woman, by stripping stark naked in the library. Kotzebue disrupts the orderly work of the library, and incredibly Roswitha takes her into her home. She has a massive collection of the pink berries that form the name of the film. Kotzebue was a foundling and knows nothing of her past and her family; Roswitha is an escapee from communist East Berlin and doesn't know where her brother ended up. Their shared search for the past is the substance of the film, ending up with the lesbian relationship and a final snog.

Yawn

HF January 2004

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