I am big fan of lesbian films, but this one is almost hard to watch. I know it's supposed to be very artistic with how it's filmed and what is being shown, but this isn't an art piece, this is a movie. Movies need to follow a general formula to appeal to most audiences.

The biggest downfall to the movie is the way it's filmed. How the camera keeps focusing on objects while zooming in or out. Or even how the sex scenes are filmed takes away from the passion of it and makes it annoying to watch. There is a reason why the mass majority of movies are not filmed in this manner, and it's not because it improves the quality of the movie. Instead by doing this, it makes it hard to watch. It's like adding a pause, in between almost every scene.

I liked the chemistry between the two leads, and the over all story was interesting. But it was a very short story, that caused the writer to add in a ton of filler moments that really should not have been added into the movie. The plot could have been stretched a lot more then what it was, giving the viewer something real to watch then just repeat artistic filler scenes.

The only reason the movie is worth watching is the relationship between the leads, their chemistry and the few scenes they have together. Everything else majorly down grades the film.

Despite all the arts and scenery, don't be fooled even by Jessica Clark's presence. This is cringe after cringe and doesn't offer very much. This tried to Lure me in to the world of middle aged madness and curiosity but the execution was weak and the story too thin. This will leave you feeling annoyed with yourself for selecting it. Half the reason people watched this was because it has Jessica Clark in it flashing her rather desperate charm. Nope didn't fill me miss Clark, you might look good but the rest of the film didn't. Fail.

While I cannot completely follow some enthusiastic reviews here, I have to admit that I am intrigued how this little movie seduces its audience, despite a small budget (175k is really very small),and despite a story that may not go very well for everyone, because it is some kind of 'Denver Clan 2012' ;-)

But, intriguing enough, we follow easily the introduction, where a woman in her fifties, called Rebecca, wealthy, with three grown-up children and a husband nobody can love, tells her friends that she never climaxed and has mostly forgotten everything about sex. And her friends, two lesbians (of course ?) persuade her to try a service that provides - a prostitute who can help her to finally climax (of course again ?). Now, this seems a bigger bit far-fetched, but it is delivered believable enough not to stand up and run away.

After that, when it comes to an appointment, everything goes wrong for Rebecca, although or even because the rented hooker is young and extremely beautiful and also skilled in the art of seduction. Rebecca is afraid of her own boldness and declines any interaction. But, we know it, it is the tentative beginning of a love story, and this love story isn't a common one.

Now many things are going on there and we learn that this is not a movie from Francois Truffaut or R.W. Fassbinder. And it isn't a movie about the troubles of homosexuality for an elderly woman. These aspects are completely and thankfully left out.

Instead, it is a movie about overcoming a common fate of women, about how your life has been passed by and you miss something real important for a sudden. This fate is of course not limited only to wealthy women, but the movie is located in a wealthy social class, and therefore it looks soapy in some of it's family-related side stories. But on the other hand, there is a distinct feeling for real emotional struggle.

Here comes the main actor in, Barbara Niven, who has the courage to play a woman on the edge of a wasted life, to show herself naked, together with a 30 years younger beauty (Niven is born 1953). And she never fails, you will be surprised, not only how good she looks, but how authentic she is.

The beautiful hooker in turn, played by Jessica Clark, places an attitude like Maggie Q in 'Nikita', when it comes to dialog, and that is sometimes too overused. She seems always slightly unreal, like being not really from this world, even while she is suffering from things happened in her past. I wonder if Director Nicole Conn intended that. And I wonder how Jessica Clark is in private.

Cinematically, the movie is solid modern upper B-grade with some nice ideas to break the narrative continuity for watchers who need a bit more than the standard menu. It looks always good and bright, and focuses wisely on every Detail of Barbara Niven's artful play.

While a hardcore lesbian will spit on this movie because it's too beautiful and calm, someone who wants to follow a butterfly eventually starting to use it's wings (as implied at the end),will be fully satisfied. 8 stars out of sheer earned sympathy.