Loving Annabelle

Isn't is great when you get a film about something some people still consider taboo and it's not just there for the titillation but for the purpose of telling a story about love and heartbreak and bloody conniving nuns?!

I sure do.

Loving Annabelle is a film directed by Katherine Brookes, who's primary list of other jobs includes directing the Simple Life (ouch) and the the Osbournes (brave woman). It stars Erin Kelly, who plays Annabelle a senators bad-girl daughter, who looks a lot like other women of that age I’ve seen either from tv or in real life. It also has the very soft spoken Diane Gaidry who plays a well meaning cool kind hearted teacher, Miss Bradley, at the All Girls Nunnery School for Shenanigans.

Annabelle has been sent to boarding school by her father in order to try and calm down her wicked ways. She doesn’t seem that wicked in the film though, she seems pretty cool, in a non “hey man what’s up…get outta face way”. She instantly befriends her roommates, that include that JAW OF DOOM Cat, Kristen and cute porcupine lover Collins. The school is run by Mother Immaculata, who not only sports a stern chilling expression when she is displeased but also must suffering from headaches due to her hair being tied so damn tightly.

Mother Immaculata is also Miss Bradley’s aunt and it is implied during the course of the film, well at least twice that Mother Immaculata may be harboring some ‘sinful’ tendencies herself, made all the more dirty by the fact that they are for her niece. Now this may of come across as just a play for the viewers to make up their minds, but I don’t know of anyone that has seen the scene of Mother Immaculately Hypocritical sitting on a couch with a glass of bourbon in one hand and her awkwardly uncomfortable nieces soft locks in the other, being fondled by her bony digits and creepy eyes and not thought “damn she’s being a wee bit indecent with her niece”.

So anyway on with the film, sorry about that little meander. Annabelle and Miss Bradley form a connection, that involves poetry, their lost of their lovers from the past and classroom eye romance. The girls that Annabelle live with find it interesting that she’s a lesbian, but never really bring it up too often, I presume because it’s not that big a deal. Of course there’s one of them that finds it useful as a nerve to poke whenever Annabelle and Miss Bradley are caught making googly eyes. Yes JAW OF DOOM catches on to their eyeball loving and she also takes a fancy to Annabelle, attacking her in a pool and giving her the kiss of life even though they’re both not under the water. Annabelle says no and JAW OF DOOM, splashes her with water, Annabelle melts to death and the film ends.

Nah…. JAW OF DOOM leaves in a huff and from then on ups the Bradley agitating taunts and then finally in an ultimate act of betrayal ends up being the reason that Annabelle and her new found sweetheart loose each other.

See all the while I was talking about odd aunts and women with impressively scary jaws, Annabelle and Bradley do end up giving into their feelings, well Bradley does anyway. She is hesitant at first due to the fact that she lost her previous lover and that she’s currently in a relationship with a man who she is not happy with.

They spend a night together and are intruded upon the next morning while waking up by Mother Immaculata and are caught in the act (of clothes-putting-on). The police are called and Miss Bradley is taken away. Well all want to see an extra scene after the credits where either the two lovers are reunited or JAW OF DOOM and Mother Immaculata are tarred and feathered, but unfortunately we see neither.

This is a story about love, forbidden and passionate and how for some it's all worth it. The fact that I haven’t gone into detail aboutlove scenes, is testament to the fact that not all movies about sch a topic out there are made just to show a meaningless written piece of titilation. People find love and people loose it. It happens regardless of your gender or the gender of the person you fall for and it also happens whether you are young or old.
5/5