Show Notes
Is this thing still on?! Amber and Joyce are back to discuss another LGBTQ+ film... kind of. Tune in to listen to their thoughts about Beanpole, the celebrated 2019 Russian film about two women who are just trying to survive in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, at the end of the Second World War.
Content warnings - references to sexual assault on screen, strong themes surrounding WW2, violence and death.
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