The 1996 film is enjoying a welcome reissue this summer. Here, director Bridgett M. Davis and the Black Film Archive’s Maya Cade talk representation and artists going where the love is.
“In spite of all the challenged adults who struggle with the green-eyed monster disease, in true Carter/Knowles/Beyince tradition it just motivates you to keep it moving.”
Two women embark on a romance twisted with desire, guilt, suspicion, and resentment while living in the same house in the Dutch countryside after World War II