Sapphic Culture Club

Our resident historian Laura is back to answer your questions! What's the significance of Héloïse bathing in the sea? Why is page 28 on the right side of their book? Why did Céline let Héloïse be left-handed? Were there any known lesbian couples in 18th century France? What's the oldest record of lesbian activity? How did Sappho's work get lost, and was she accepted in her time? Why did matriarcha...

There's another lesbian/bi period movie out, and you know what that means! It means we get to talk to Valerie Complex! So, hike up those britches, bitches. We're going to learn about the power of imagination! Links from the show: The World to Come: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-world-to-come Valerie's interview with Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston: https://www.pride.com/movies/2021/...

Here's what we pulled out of mailbag #8! Why does Marianne say she isn't sad anymore? When did Héloïse fall asleep in the kitchen? Are you a sleepy girl or do you want to be with a sleepy girl? Do Americans really dislike subtitled movies? Is there a heartbeat sound in the armpit scene?  We also got some book recommendations from Julia! The Empress of Salt and Fortune https://nghivo.com/wp/in...

A lightly edited audio version of our Feb. 13 livestream (Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CLP4xihAlfq/). Also, our apologies! We had some issues with sound in this episode, which we've tried to repair as best we can and will hopefully be able to fix by the next livestream.😬🙇🏽‍♀️ Have questions you'd like us to answer live? Comment or DM us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/podcastofaladyonf...

One year ago, Portrait of a Lady on Fire made its way into theaters across the States, introducing US Womanz to armpit drugs, retourne-toi, and one hundred nineteen breathtaking minutes of the female gaze. And we haven’t been the same since. From Portrait Nation to armpits and spit strings, join us as we celebrate this anniversary in typical podcast fashion - by sharing 28 things we L O V E about...

A lightly edited audio version of our Jan. 30 livestream! If you'd like to watch the video version, you can find it here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CKrzlPug9Jl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

We finally got around to doing a lesbian look-back at all the wlw-themed and -adjacent media we consumed in 2020! (Honestly, not the easiest feat in a year that felt like a decade.) We loved some stuff and didn't love others, but overall we're grateful that we have so many options to choose from. Here are some of our faves: Movies Portrait https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/portrait-of-a-lady-on-f...

As we mentioned in the last episode, we're trying out new things to make the podcast production more sustainable, and this is one of those things! We answered some of your questions over Instagram Live including what other movies have impacted us nearly as much as Portrait of a Lady on Fire , what advice we have for WLW and baby gays, what our favorite dinosaurs are and more. This episode is an au...

Here in the U.S. a LOT is happening at the moment, and sometimes in order to push through a distant but ever-present danger, you just have to soak your tired gay brain in a TV show about a newly conscripted army of young witches in an alternate America. Join us as we watch Motherland: Fort Salem! Some sync time stamps in case you get a bunch of ads: - We hit play at 6:28 in the podcast. So, if you...

We're haulin' out the mailbag and doing our best to answer your questions about... 1. Why the countess and Marianne flip back and forth between Italian and French 2. Who we think Sybille Blouin is the stunt double for 3. Which characters we resonate with the most 4. What other books we'd recommend Books: Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal https://drawnandquarterly.com/woman-world Spinning by Tillie W...

Laura returns to help us "turn around" and wave goodbye to 2020 by unpacking what the Orpheus and Eurydice myth means and all the ways it's woven into Portrait of a Lady on Fire . Follow Laura on Twitter! https://twitter.com/labhistorical Check out her podcast! https://anchor.fm/labhistorytime

A teeny episode with an extra Portrait synopsis rewrite, more Portrait Nation fan names, and queer holiday rom-com ideas. See you in 2021!

Joyeux Noël, y'all! For our last episode of the year, we're bringing back our first guest . . . Aimée! She takes us behind the scenes of the project to translate the Plain Archive script into English, and we discuss some of the major differences between the script and the final film. Stuff from the show: The unofficial English translation of the Portrait of a Lady on Fire script: https://mlleclaud...

We confetti'd a bunch of questions at you last week, and you were generous enough to confetti us back with answers! So now we're here to gather all that answer confetti, sort it into categories, convert it into an audio file, and party horn it into your ears! 🤷🏽‍♀️  We'll be sharing your responses to Valerie Complex's request for a rewrite of Portrait of a Lady on Fire's logline, your sugge...

Valerie's back to finish answering your (well, Gina's) questions! We also unpack some racist and creepy fandom behavior and accidentally uncover a suspiciously consistent trend in how lesbian films are marketed! Quite the journey, tbh. Stuff from the show: Angelica Jade Bastién's review of Antebellum : https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/antebellum-movie-review-i-am-tired-of-films-like-this.html Valer...

Make yourself some hot cocoa and snuggle up with our Happiest Season watch party! Also, thanks again to everyone who was able to join us on Twitch—you made it super fun and held our hands through some tough scenes. 💖  How to sync the movie with the podcast: we'll cue you in, but if you want to double-check . . . 06:26 on the podcast should line up with 01:58 on Hulu (-01:39:55 if you're on a...

This episode falls right on Noémie's birthday, so we decided to talk about how much we loved Shakira , the short film she wrote and directed. Shakira follows its title character, a young Roma girl, as she tries to make a better life for herself and her family.   Watch and support Shakira (official video with English and French subtitles) Variety interview with Noémie

Film critic and writer Valerie Complex joins us to answer some of your questions, share some of her favorite movies of the year (so far), and weigh in a bit on Ammonite . Stuff from the show: Valerie’s previous episode Follow Valerie on Letterboxd Movies: Jumbo , Cuties (Mignonnes) , Relic , Miss Juneteenth , Summerland , Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children , Coded Bias , Giving Voic...

Why did Céline set Portrait of a Lady on Fire in 1770? What was happening in the late 18th century that made this time period so meaningful? To find out, we talk to Laura, an archaeologist, historical consultant and history teacher from London. She helps us unpack how women have often been rewritten or left out of traditional retellings of historical events and urges us to seek out other real-life...

For this mailbag we dig deeper into a couple of key lines: What did Héloïse regret when she said she felt regret? And what did she mean when she said now and then she'd be consoled in Milan? We talk about how Portrait and Portrait Nation have changed our vocabularies. Then we talk about the results of our Halloweenie poll: were those Héloïse ghosts just memories or were they actually following Mar...

This Halloween, join us one country over (Germany) and two centuries later (1977) as we consume and are consumed by Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria . Mercifully, we’re joined by our first returning guest and resident spirit guide, Heather Petrocelli, who talks about Suspiria's similarities to Portrait and provides lovingly gathered insights into this beautiful and chilling film while Audrey and Laurel...

We close out our listener responses series with your questions for Céline as well as all the ways Portrait of a Lady on Fire has changed your (and our!) lives. We also awkwardly piece together how the two of us met through our shared obsession with this film. .

In the second to last part of our listener responses series we try our best to verbally convey the emojis you sent us about how Portrait made you feel 🤷🏽‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️, we discuss the new connections you've made (and would like to make), how other films and TV shows impacted your life, what's up with the Portrait and Call Me By Your Name comparisons, and how the two of us feel about pineapple on piz...

Welcome to Part 3 of our listener responses series! Maybe someday we'll remember not to set ourselves up to relive all of everyone's most emotionally impactful scenes in a single episode, but today is not that day! 😂😭 We're a mess by the end of it, but what is Portrait Nation if not an international collective for FEELING FEELINGS TOGETHER?? Enjoy! 😀💀 Afterward (or before!) soothe yourself wit...

In Part 2 of this series, we talk about some of the other media that's impacted you similarly to Portrait : classic films like Mädchen in Uniform and new masterpieces like Moonlight , shows like Gentleman Jack and books like A Little Life. So much variation! No wonder we all write such interesting Lex ads! Stuff we mentioned: Céline Sciamma's new screenwriting project, Les Olympiades