Saturday Night Butch

The(ir) Blurb...

Set in the spring of 1969, Saturday Night Butch tells the story of Carrie, a damaged but idealistic young butch from the industrial Midwest, who meets and falls for Joni, an older, more disillusioned femme, whose work in the sex trade and failure as a mother have left her weary of men, yet trapped by them. Borrowing much of it’s structure from the dime store pulp novels of the 1960s and the films of Douglas Sirk, Saturday Night Butch uses melodrama to speak in the coded language of intimacy, and examines the power of desire when sexuality is highly repressed. An homage to queer ancestry, the film speaks to the stories of those for whom revolution came too late, or those who gay liberation abandoned or left behind in the pursuit of progress for some, and not for all.