I Like Girls
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First love is an intoxicating experience, but with it can come excruciating awkwardness, unrequited emotions, and confusing issues of identity. In her trademark playful style, Quebec cartoonist and animator Diane Obomsawin, a.k.a. Obom, adapts her latest graphic novel for the screen, using endearing anthropomorphic figures to tell poignant real-life stories of love.Charlotte, Mathilde, Marie, and Diane reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, sexual awakening comes hand-in-hand with discovering their desire for other women—and a joyful new self-awareness.Obom's visually whimsical stories deftly weave together these youthful memories, resulting in a powerful and tender work with universal appeal. Evoking all the raw intensity and heart-pounding excitement of falling in love for the very first time, this uplifting film will resonate with lovers everywhere.
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Main credits
Obomsawin, Diane (film director)
Bertrand, Marc (film producer)
Schaub, Cheyenne (voice actor)
Other credits
Sound design and original music, Judith Gruber-Stitzer; director of photography, Éric Barbeau; animation, Janet Perlman.
Distributor subjects
Psychology and Psychiatry - Emotional Life; Sexuality and Reproduction - Sexual minorities; AnimationKeywords
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(light music)
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(girl): It happened
the last week of school.
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We slept in a dormitory
where there was a bed,
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a little dresser
with a washbasin,
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a bed, a little dresser
with a washbasin...
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One night,
she came over to my bed.
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We were sad because we weren\'t
gonna see each other again,
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\'cause she wasn\'t coming back
the next year.
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We talked for hours,
and my hand slipped into hers.
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(soft music)
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It felt so natural,
so sweet and tender.
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The last night,
I went to the bathroom,
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and when I came out...
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there she was.
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We sat on the windowsill
and we looked out at the night
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until the sun came up.
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(birdsong)
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And... and we kissed.
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(bird chirping)
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I thought:
Wow, you can kiss a girl.
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(rooster crowing)
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She asked me to stay
at her place for a few days.
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We slept in the same bed.
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I\'d never made love before.
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(crickets chirring)
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(bell tolling)
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We woke up late
the next morning.
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Our cheeks were flushed
and our eyes sparkled.
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Her mom made us a big breakfast.
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She called out:
\"Good morning, girls!\"
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(whinnying)
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- I was crazy about horses.
Like, completely obsessed.
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(bell ringing)
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In my class, there was a girl
who looked like a horse.
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I thought she was beautiful.
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Psst.
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Every day I\'d give her
a drawing of a horse.
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That went on for quite a while,
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till one day she told me
I had to stop.
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(soft accordion music)
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My first girlfriend was like
half horse, half Wonder Woman.
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It was love at first sight.
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(birdsong)
We were in heaven.
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(soft music)
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(ding!)
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We held hands and kissed
wherever we went.
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We were happy, but we felt
so alone in the world.
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We didn\'t know anyone like us.
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Until one day we noticed
another lesbian couple
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at the movies.
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They were deaf, so they went
to films with subtitles.
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We learned sign language
just so we could talk to them.
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(dance music)
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And we went to our first
Gay Pride Parade together.
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(honking and cheering)
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On the float
for the hearing-impaired.
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(doorbell ringing)
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- I had a big crush
on my next-door neighbour.
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She had long blond hair,
super straight.
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She looked a lot like the French
singer Françoise Hardy,
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but shorter.
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(music, applause and cheering)
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♪ C\'est le temps de l\'amour ♪
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♪ Le temps des copains ♪
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♪ Et de l\'aventure ♪
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♪ Quand le temps va et vient ♪
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♪ On ne pense à rien ♪
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♪ Malgré ses blessures ♪♪
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She walked
with her arm like this, so...
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so I did too.
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One time, our arms touched.
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Oh, God, I almost passed out.
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The first girl I ever kissed
was my brother\'s girlfriend.
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I was in the basement
and she came down and said:
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\"Kiss me, Marie!\"
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(soft music)
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We went to live with her family.
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We put up a red curtain
to have a little bit of privacy.
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Once, I got up the nerve
to touch her breast.
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They were so poor,
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we\'d have ice-cream cones
dipped in Pepsi for lunch.
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One day, my mother showed up.
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She sent me to live on a farm
in Ontario
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to get me away
from my girlfriend.
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(geese honking)
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(babbling)
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(screaming)
I pinched the baby,
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I threw my butts on the floor,
anything to get out of there.
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But instead,
they gave me a cow to milk.
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(cow lowing)
(rooster crowing)
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(TV playing)
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- I was home alone one night,
watching an old movie.
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It was Girls in Uniform with
Romy Schneider and Lilli Palmer.
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(German)
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When the two women kissed,
I felt so overwhelmed,
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I shut off the TV.
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I just sat there in the dark.
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Then I turned the TV back on,
hoping they\'d still be kissing.
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But the film was over.
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(music)
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(bell ringing)
I was forever changing schools.
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And, every time,
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I\'d pick out a girl
I wanted to fall in love with.
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I\'d never speak to her.
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It was a secret love.
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(girl speaking French)
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I liked girls,
but I didn\'t know it.
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Until I had this dream
with Greta Garbo as a cowgirl.
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She leaned over and kissed me.
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I knew I was ready
to meet a woman.
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And it happened.
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I fell in love with Josephine.
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(birdsong)
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Oh, and we went to see
Girls in Uniform at the theatre.
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I finally saw the part
of the movie I\'d missed.
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(soft music)
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(music)
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(lively music)
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Subtitling: CNST, Montreal