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A Practically Nonsensical Mini-Review
Princess Cyd (2017)
This was so soft, genuine, and allowed us to follow an exploration of one's sexual fluidity!! The Aunt was so open and understanding, the kind of understanding that is stern, honest, and gentle.
The main relationship is not the romantic one (even tho Cyd and Katie were adorable together and really captured the whirlwind of a summer romance in those small moments as Cyd grows into her own sexuality), it is the Aunt/Niece dynamic where both characters learn to trust, encourage, and LOVE one another.
“You're finding your own joy. You're engaging your own stuff, and that's great. That's how it should be. It's a beautiful thing."
Even when Cyd was not being the nicest or wasn't at her best, her Aunt had patience and was ready to hear Cyd out. And goodness, isn't that just the most beautiful thing? To be heard and loved.
Of course, there were flaws, sub-plots that went nowhere or felt shoehorned, like the attempted assault scene that was never addressed again..
But I just love compassion and this was a compassionate film.
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Princess Cyd (2017)
Princess Cyd
directed by Stephen Cone / shot by Zoë White
“Oh, I might have half a piece more of Anna May’s cake. You sure you don’t want some cake?”
”No, thanks. You know, maybe if you had sex once in a while you wouldn’t want to eat all the time. ...I’m really sorry. That came out super nasty.”
“Let me just say something real quick. It’s okay, but I need you to listen to me, okay? Yeah, I wish that I could... I could share with you the utter joy it brings me to spend three hours on a Saturday afternoon reading Emerson or Melville or Virginia Woolf... or discussing T.S. Eliot or James Baldwin with a dear friend until dawn. The fulfillment that I get from going to church, from reading theology, from reading science, from praying. But I can’t, because I’m me and you are you. I can’t relate to you the fulfillment that I get from these things. It’s impossible. And I understand, you’re finding your own joy. You’re engaging your own stuff, that’s great. That’s how it should be and it’s a beautiful thing. But hear me. It is not a handicap to have one thing but not another. To be one way and not another. We are different shapes and ways and our happiness is unique. There are no rules of balance. Don’t be sorry. But I’ve got a quarter of a century on you, Cyd. So let’s just enjoy ourselves. Okay?”
“I wanted to ask you what your greatest pleasure in life is. Like... joy.”
“Cake.”
Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is a moving, tender screenwriting masterclass of a film with great characters and sweet lesbian teen romance.
Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone, 2017)
Princess Cyd (2017) Directed by Stephen Cone
I just wanna thank you for that post you made about Malic White, I loved them in Princess Cyd but I never thought to look them up! As a nonbinary lesbian, its super validating to know that a lesbian character that I love was played by a nonbinary person 💕💕
Glad to hear it. :) Malic is great! They’re currently doing comedy shows all over Chicago!