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I remember this film. I saw it at a movie theatre downtown in my hometown that specialized in European movies. An art house movie at a art house movie theatre. I was a teenager, probably younger than "Bilitis." Seeing "intelectual" movies. Did I understand what was going on with "Bilitis"? I remember I was scandalized and turned on similtaneosly. The sexual content, lesbian Bilitis? Bi-sexual? Her journey of discovery. At least sublimely, I thought that was a common theme to these Euro-flics. The way people dressed and their basic morays towards sex were different than America. What is relevant is what I remember thinking about this movie and movie going- to experience from 1977. One thing was clear, Bilitis wasn't going around freaked out about "her" sexual identity. I didn't get the older woman with the gruff husband then, their dynamic. I do now. So I sat through this film bedazzled and boggled by its sexual content in 1977 in a pretty packed house of bohemians with my fake intellectual friends. My thoughts ultimately focused on the differences of life in America as I knew, at least suburban life, and that of cinematic Europe...Now that I've been to Europe my thoughts are still forming.

- June 6, 2020"Bilitis" bi-sexual European bliss