{"id":1331,"date":"2006-08-30T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2021-02-05T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T22:48:42","slug":"lianna-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"Lianna (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Just because you can argue better doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re right!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Poster-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Poster-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Poster-684x1024.png 684w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Poster-86x128.png 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Poster-180x270.png 180w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Poster.png 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn unhappy faculty wife (Linda Griffiths) divorces her husband and discovers that she is attracted to women.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Divorce<\/li>\n<li>Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues<\/li>\n<li>John Sayles Films<\/li>\n<li>Lesbianism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis &#8220;unusually fine, thematically daring&#8221; independent film by John Sayles is likely the best portrayal of female &#8220;coming-out&#8221; I&#8217;ve ever seen. Over the course of the movie, we witness the shifting reactions of Lianna&#8217;s husband, her children, her best friend, and Lianna herself, all of whom &#8212; naturally &#8212; cope in different ways with this revelation. As Peary notes, it&#8217;s unfortunate that Lianna&#8217;s husband comes across as such as a chauvanistic jerk, because he&#8217;s not really the reason she &#8220;turns&#8221; to women &#8212; ultimately, Lianna is on a joyous if painful journey towards <em>self<\/em>-discovery. Indeed, once Lianna &#8220;realizes she is a lesbian, she is happy with that knowledge&#8221; and &#8220;suffers no shame&#8221;. While society at large may not be ready to accept Lianna&#8217;s change of sexual expression, she herself is &#8212; and that&#8217;s ultimately most important. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linda Griffiths as Lianna<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Griffiths-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Griffiths-1-1024x582.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-54735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Griffiths-1-1024x582.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Griffiths-1-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Griffiths-1-128x73.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Griffiths-1-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Griffiths-1-1536x873.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Griffiths-1-475x270.png 475w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Lianna-Griffiths-1.png 1685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Excellent, natural dialogue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes. This early John Sayles film is a uniquely respectful character study. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good Show<\/li>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0085838\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1983\/01\/19\/movies\/lianna-faculty-wife-with-marital-woes.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s963lianna.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just because you can argue better doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re right!&#8221; Synopsis: An unhappy faculty wife (Linda Griffiths) divorces her husband and discovers that she is attracted to women. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Divorce Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues John Sayles Films Lesbianism Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: This &#8220;unusually fine, thematically daring&#8221; independent film by John Sayles is likely the best portrayal of female &#8220;coming-out&#8221; I&#8217;ve ever seen. Over the course of the movie, we witness the shifting reactions of Lianna&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1331\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68989,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/68989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}