Directed by Jacqueline Audry
"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress Julie and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Julie and the other head of the school Cara in its final months.
Edwige Feuillère Simone Simon Marie-Claire Olivia Yvonne de Bray Suzanne Dehelly Marina de Berg Lesly Meynard Rina Rhéty Tania Soucault Elly Claus Nadine Olivier Sophie Mallet Hélène Rémy Michèle Monty Ludmilla Hols Marcelle Arditi Martine Bridou Patricia Solair Lisette Lebon Jacqueline Siber Violette Verdy Suzy Dumas Catherine Alba Jocelyne Jany Eliane Salmon Evelyne Salmon Gabriel Sardet Paul Mesnier Gilles Ange Show All…
The Pit of Loneliness, Оливия, 奥莉维娅, 올리비아
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France Saint-Etienne LGBTI Film Festival France Paris Chéries Chéris Film Festival 
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yes I support men's rights... men's rights to shut the fuck up
every single character in this film is a lesbian and it is magical and camp and provocative
The film's English title, The Pit of Loneliness, describes this story perfectly. It's about two people who fall in love, but can never be together, and the loneliness that comes with that. I'm a firm believer that love is fluid--unpredictable. That we can't choose who we fall in love with, no matter the gender or age we desire in a partner.
I once was like Olivia. I fell in love with one of my teachers, like she falls in love with Mlle. Julie. It was scary, confusing and, well, lonely. I think this film captures that feeling of falling in love for the first time marvellously through the performance of Marie-Claire Olivia.
For the 1950s, I think this captures a…
love that this has no male characters
the math teacher who hates math and understands the uselessness of what shes teaching while having her mind always focused on food deserves best supporting actress
tag urself i'm kitchen girl dyke
“let us savor the swift pleasures of our fairest days.”
elements that are normally so huge in cinema are made so small and delicate here, almost like secrets kept between the film and the viewer. there are murmured lines and furtive glances made between these characters that no filmic attention is brought to in the moment. yearning and suppression are given the same treatment as hunger and joy. the things women are typically allowed to feel and say are spoken in the same breath and with the same cadence as the things they aren’t; a loud and familiar whisper in the dark.
A film brave enough to ask the question "what if Mädchen in Uniform was super fucked up?" and to know that the answer would be "it would rule"
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Thanks to Sakana1 whose review got me so intrigued I just had to watch this movie.
On the surface Olivia presents itself as getaway from everyday life, set in a beautiful boarding school in France that is house to free spirited girls, in which conventions do not exists, love knows no boundaries and laws, spirituality and morals are left behind, favoring the intellect and sentiments, a place where emotions grow and flourish, expanding without society's judgmental control, a place where the notions of femininity and womanhood are redefined, and the young girls are encouraged to embrace their sharp critical side instead of hiding it, all of this enhanced by the beautiful sets and costumes, the vibrant and living direction and…
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I have so many thoughts and feelings about this movie and it’s genuinely one of my favorites but not for the reasons you would think.
1. I’m genuinely obsessed with Cara and Julie’s relationship. You can tell they were definitely a really cute couple at one point.
2. Julie is an absolute creep. People just let it slide because she’s attractive.
3. Cara is weirdly amazing Bpd rep even though it was never stated that she had it. She has all the symptoms and I love her so much.
4. I feel really bad for poor Olivia. She was used as a pawn in the game between Julie and Cara.
5. I bawled my eyes out when Julie visited Cara’s…
The unnamed French finishing school at which Olivia takes place is a profoundly, intentionally insular world: everything any of the girls need is available to them there, from enlightenment to friendship; from loyalty to love. In this proudly gynocentric space, the women and girls are everything to one another, opening their hearts as a matter of course and constantly in physical contact, in a way that physically expresses their collective, deep connection.
Given the intensity of the ideas and emotions constantly swirling within that space, it's no surprise that sexual desire is present as well. And, in this film written and directed by a woman, based on a novel by a woman, that desire is presented as utterly normal. It's…
