If These Walls Could Talk 2 (en España, Mujer contra Mujer) es un telefilme estadounidense del año 2000 ganador de un premio Emmy y un Globo de Oro. Emitido en la cadena HBO, el filme sigue las historias de tres parejas distintas de lesbianas en tres momentos temporales diferentes. Como ocurría con la original If These Walls Could Talk, todas las historias tienen lugar en la misma casa.
La primera historia tiene lugar en 1961, y presenta a Vanessa Redgrave como Edith Tree. Trata de la muerte de su amante y pareja del alma, Abby Hedley (interpretada por Marian Seldes), y la exclusión que sufre Tree de los subsiguientes asuntos "familiares".
La segunda historia, protagonizada por Chloë Sevigny y Michelle Williams, se sitúa en 1972, y trata sobre las duras divisiones que tuvieron lugar dentro del movimiento feminista de la época.
La tercera historia ocurre en el "momento presente", es más amena y ligera, y tiene como protagonistas a Sharon Stone y Ellen DeGeneres, que interpretan a una pareja de lesbianas que intentan tener un hijo.
Las historias fueron dirigidas por Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, y Anne Heche respectivamente.
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 is an Emmy Award-winning 2000 television movie in the United States, broadcast on HBO. It follows three separate storylines about lesbian couples in three different time periods. As with the original If These Walls Could Talk, all the stories are set in the same house.
The segments were directed by Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, and Anne Heche respectively.
1961
An elderly couple, Edith (Vanessa Redgrave) and Abby (Marian Seldes) sit in a cinema watching a lesbian-themed film The Children's Hour.
A couple walks out of the theater in disgust at the film, and a group
of kids laugh when they see Edith and Abby holding hands. Later at the
home they have shared for 30 years, Abby falls from a ladder. At the
hospital, doctors tell Edith that Abby may have suffered a stroke. Edith
spends the night in the waiting room and in the morning she learns that
Abby died during the night, and none of the hospital workers informed
her after it had happened.
Edith telephones Abby's nephew, Ted (Paul Giamatti),
to tell him the news. Before Ted and his family come for the funeral,
Edith removes all traces that they were a couple. She makes it look like
they had separate bedrooms and removes photographs of the two of them
together. At the house afterwards, Ted and Edith talk about the fact
that the house was in Abby's name. Although Edith contributed equally to
the mortgage, she legally owns no part of it. As Alice packs up Abby's
belongings, Ted tells Edith that he would consider letting Edith staying
in the house and paying him rent. Edith tells him that Abby would have
wanted her to stay in the house, as that was what they always talked
about. Ted eventually tells her that it would be better if he sells the
house and she finds a place of her own although he says that he'll wait
till she finds a new place before putting the house on the market. The
family leaves, with Ted telling Edith that he will be in touch in a
couple of weeks to discuss what she is going to do.
1972
Linda (Michelle Williams), a young student, now shares the house with three friends, all lesbians. They face conflict with the feminist
group they are part of when the other women do not want to include
lesbian issues despite the fact that Linda and her friends helped to
found the group and fought for free contraception on campus with their
straight friends.
At a lesbian bar they have not been to before, they are surprised and disappointed to see women apparently fulfilling traditional butch and femme roles. They laugh at Amy (Chloë Sevigny),
a young butch woman who is wearing a tie. Amy asks Linda to dance but
she refuses while her friends are still there. The others soon leave and
Linda stays behind and dances with Amy. Later, Amy gives Linda a ride
home on her motorcycle and they kiss. Linda invites Amy to return the
next day.
The next day Linda and the others are arguing with a woman from the
feminist group when Amy arrives. Linda is embarrassed and is short with
Amy who quickly leaves. Linda's friends tease her about Amy and question
how they can be taken seriously as feminists if they associate with
people like Amy. They cannot understand why a woman would dress like a
man when they have fought so hard to escape such stereotypical roles.
Linda goes to Amy's house and apologizes. They sleep together. The
next morning Linda sees a picture of Amy as a child, dressed like a boy.
She asks Amy if Amy is supposed to be the man and Linda the woman. Amy
says no and accuses Linda of being afraid that people will know what she
is if she is seen with Amy.
Amy goes to Linda's house for dinner. Linda urges her friends to give
Amy a chance but an awkward evening deteriorates when Linda's friends
laugh at Amy and try to make her change her clothes. Amy leaves, upset.
Linda follows her home and tells her that she was never ashamed of Amy,
but only of herself. They reconcile.
2000
The house is now inhabited by Fran (Sharon Stone) and Kal (Ellen DeGeneres), a couple hoping to have a baby together. They hope to get a sperm donation from Tom (George Newbern) and Arnold (Mitchell Anderson),
a gay couple, but when the men are reluctant to agree to stay out of
the baby's life, the women decide not to go ahead. Later, Kal tells Fran
that she does not want to know the father of the baby and they agree to
use an anonymous donor. They look for donors on the internet and find a
company to use. Going through endless profiles of potential donors, Kal
gets upset that she herself cannot get Fran pregnant.
When they discover that Fran is ovulating, Kal hurries to the donor
company to get the sperm. She inseminates Fran, but with no success.
They share their worries for their child. They know that their baby will
face discrimination but hope that their love for each other and their
child will be enough. After three attempts to get pregnant, they go to a
doctor to help them conceive. Shortly afterwards they discover that
Fran is pregnant.
CAST:
1961
- Vanessa Redgrave as Edith Tree
- Marian Seldes as Abby Hedley
- Paul Giamatti as Ted Hedley
- Elizabeth Perkins as Alice Hedley
- Jenny O'Hara as Marge Carpenter
- Marley McClean as Maggie Hedley
1972
- Michelle Williams as Linda
- Chloë Sevigny as Amy
- Nia Long as Karen
- Natasha Lyonne as Jeanne
- Heather McComb as Diane
- Amy Carlson as Michelle
- Lee Garlington as Georgette
2000
- Sharon Stone as Fran
- Ellen DeGeneres as Kal
- Regina King as Allie
- Kathy Najimy as Doctor
- Mitchell Anderson as Arnold
- George Newbern as Tom
Fuente :: Source: wikipedia.org
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