Women in the Dark

Seven shorts loosely themed around female sexuality. The strongest story is of an Asian teen relocated to a school in the US and struggling to adapt in the face of parental expectations. This is also the only story in English.

Elsewhere a traveller returns to their firmer home to stir up emotions on the eve of the wedding if two former lovers. We sense the tension but there isn't time to get to know the characters.

A young woman makes advances to another, under the influence of drugs, but settles for unfeeling sex with a man when rebuffed.

Two lesbian couples speak about their experiences in Cuba, where social acceotance is shifting. An odd fantasy of ex-lovers dying of illness left me baffled. The narrative was not coherent enough to support the ephemeral visuals.

A Danish coming-of-age story is touching but slow, and the protagonist seems to be sleepwalking to the extent that what should be a crowd-pleasing finish passes almost unnoticed.

Finally, a threesome involving sat least one stranger hints at a curfew outside but neither city nor country are identified. An actress is falling apart, but we don't know why.

Rarely boring but only intermittently engaging. Maybe the theme was interpreted too loosely but it didn't ring my bell.