Cheryl is a worker in a video store, with a video business on the side. she meets Diana in the video store, and that's the start of the adventure. lots of filming, lots of chit chat, bumming around town while Cheryl asks family, friends, and local experts what they know about the "watermelon woman", from old hollywood. very loosely based on the stories of Dorothy Arzner, and/or early, black actresses. some conflicts... between Cheryl and her co-worker Tamara, and then between Cheryl and Diana. but the conflicts feel a little scripted; we never really find out the reason for the disagreements, or the resolution. it's an entertaining 90 minutes. some repetition, where she keeps showing the same scene from a black and while film that she adores. we see the struggles Cheryl has trying to track down an obscure figure from way back when. mostly well done. Written, directed, and starring Cheryl Dunye. She had done mostly short films up to now.
Review of The Watermelon Woman
