Nomadic Queer Movie Night : “Village Romance”

The village was once settled by a community of lesbians seeking refuge from the city. Only a few families have remained. One of them lives in poverty but in a valuable house. The mistress of the house falls in love with her unfortunate, gypsy neighbor lady, M. Despite the fact that M is heterosexual, alcoholic, beaten regularly by her husband, threatened to have her children taken from her, and scorned by the villagers because of her gypsy descent, she reciprocates her neighbor’s affection. “No one’s ever loved me for who I am,” she says. She can hardly wait for her husband to leave so she can take her three children and move in with the woman she loves.