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1978 / 82 min / 1
Brenda is at first unaware of the Scars’ involvement
original and hilarious
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The Watermelon Woman (#1184) Extreme Cinema watch carefullyThe wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker. Dunye stars as Cheryl, a video store clerk and aspiring director whose interest in forgotten Black actresses leads her to investigate an obscure 1930s performer known as the Watermelon Woman, whose story proves to have surprising resonances with Cheryls own life as she
