Mila Dekker in Looking for Cheyenne (2005)

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In the thriving, intricate borders of Paris, two passionate girlfriends struggle to keep their fervent affair afloat while disrupted by idealistic nuances and moralistic values. Beautiful, blonde Sonia (Aurelia Petit) is a well-liked high school teacher who is successful in her career, unlike her free-spirited, exquisite brunette lover Cheyenne (Mila Dekker), who unfortunately has been laid off from her journalism job. Frustrated with society's pressures, the unemployed idealist decides to buck the system and refuses welfare and modern day amenities like electricity or automobiles. Their torrid liaison crumbles after a heated night, and Cheyenne packs up her life, hops on her bicycle and rides away to simpler living in the French countryside. Sonia is left to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart and along the way she has one-night-stands first with a left-wing bloke and subsequently with an attentive, but haughty lesbian love interest. Will she find satisfaction in the arms of another lover? Has Cheyenne found the true meaning of her existence even though she left behind the one desire she cannot forget? First-time director Valerie Minetto stoically parallels this intense, rooted connection between two souls with how capitalist societies grind down the very ones that help it thrive. Intelligent, romantic and simplistic, Looking for Cheyenne is a classic lesbian romance of true love, regretful loss and finding it again. (French with English subtitles)

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