Thanks for the memories!

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I'm a straight guy, and I liked it- It was a very nice story line, it was well shot, so why destroy a perfectly good story in the last 3 minutes? Reminds me of the Detroit Tigers. I really hate it when a good movie runs out of budget in the ending. I also wonder why a national movie company like net flicks gives it such a low rating and on here it's rated so well? Yes I know I spelled net flicks wrong, there is a reason.

When I watch a film, I do so with an open mind because it started as a person's idea, and took effort, and it's somebody's art. I found watching this film to be torture because it was SO predictable, has been done so many times, and seemed to be all set up to move the audience to the sex scene...jeez...never seen one of THOSE before. How many times did "Simone" say, "No, stop, don't, I can't do this...no, stop, don't, I can't do this," only to sit somewhere and look pensive, with a vertical frown deep between her eyebrows deep enough for me to lose my car keys in, dealing with her inner demons: she's gay. How surprising. Let's see: raised in an all-girl Catholic school by Mother Immaculata (gay) since she was 13, and based on a weird little exchange between them, had likely been molested by Mother Immaculata (gay pedophile), so she later has a gay girlfriend who commits suicide, but marries a man she has no attraction for to appear straight. (Been done.) Then we, the audience, are to believe that this 40+ gay female teacher has managed to discipline herself all these years until a V.I.P. bad girl student comes to class. Another reviewer commented that she enjoyed this film because it is "character driven" and not "plot driven." I agree it has no plot. I agree the entire point of the two women is to have their soft-porn moment on screen, and the entire film is contrived (Annabelle can't leave campus for the holidays? Please! That kid would find a way.) And we're supposed to believe that Annabelle would find this homely middle aged depressive attractive? Simone mopes throughout the film, and looks haggard. The most interesting characters are the girl who insults everyone and the girl who cuts herself. I wanted to cut myself about 45 minutes into this film. Good Lord, what an insult to lesbians everywhere, and I'm straight. Maybe this is how it works, but I find it hard to believe that a teacher who says "NO" as many times as Simone did in this film would risk her freedom and her career for this particular student. It's one thing to be confused about whether or not to come out, and certainly quite another to be confused about what is an appropriate relationship between an adult educator and a minor student. Is this supposed to be HOT? It wasn't. There are so many stereotypes, and the woman who says NO and means YES went out with the 60's. And the title? We're supposed to believe this was about LOVE? I didn't see any way for love to develop between these two characters, because it's inappropriate. I saw quite a bit of lust and lack of self control. Very selfish in an adult to take advantage of a child...no love there. And the actress that played Annabelle, well, I hope she makes better career choices in the future because this film wasn't worth watching.

Annabelle (Erin Kelly) is a rebellious free spirit sent to a strict Catholic high school by her parents. Among her other unorthodoxies, she's a lesbian. So is her poetry teacher (Diane Gaidry) who is trying to live a normal life with a normal boyfriend with whom she sleeps, but she gets nothing out of the relationship.There are some admirable things about the film. For one thing, neither of the two principals is a hottie, which is perfectly fine. Kelly is attractive, as most high-school-age girls tend to be; Gaidry is quite beautiful at around the age of forty. But neither looks remotely like a sexual machine. Neither is Denise Richards bursting out of a tiny swim suit, or the collagenic Angelina Jolie. They both look rather average.The story and dialog are, if not sophisticated, at least not dumbed down for an audience of air heads. It's an adult picture. There are not only quotations from Rilke and Proust but the lines play a meaningful part in the plot.And there are a few neatly done directorial touches, by Katherine Brooks. Gaidry has been seeing this rather nice guy for whom she feels little. But after she has begun to succumb to Kelly's overtures, she distances herself from her boy friend. And when he drives her home after their last date, he kisses her as usual but she responds perfunctorily. Instead of acting shocked, the surprised guy (Markus Flanagan) leans back against the car door and stares at her silently, wearing a vague smile, while seconds of silence tick by. The temptation must have been there for Flanagan to immediately start waving his arms and carrying on like some animal in a zoo after that desultory kiss, but it doesn't happen. All men are not brutes.Kevin McCarthy is the sympathetic priest but he's marginal to the developments. Two characters in the story are devalued by the script. One of the girls squeals on Kelly and Gaidry when the two are having their first and only physical encounter. And Mother Immaculata (Ilene Graff) is stern and unforgiving. She's supposed to be tough -- always wearing a scowl and with an unbecoming do -- but she's a cream puff compared to the nuns I had to cope with in my youth. Whew.If there's a problem, and there is, it's that neither of the leads can act very well. Kelly is taciturn and unconvincing except when having a fit of pique. Gaidry is better at nuance, but she really has only two expressions: slightly concerned and profoundly worried.There have been good movies, and some very good, about lesbian affairs, latent or overt. "Madchen in Uniform" remains one of the best and most subtle. More recently, "Desert Hearts" captured the complexity of such affairs without resort to gossipy school girls. "Notes on a Scandal" was poignant because it so effectively projected Judi Dench's desperation at having grown matronly. "The Children's Hour" is more of a schematic diagram than a feature movie.

This week I've been watching movies about lesbian stories and I liked each one I saw, and well, Loving Anabelle wasn't the exception, but I didn't like it as much at the others. It's a shame to me to say that maybe the reason I didn't like this movie was for the age difference. I don't have nothing against that, and at the end I liked how their relationship was, but it was weird to me from the start. And I think that the coincidence that they both, Simone and Anabelle, had had another romance with a woman before was strange, but it was OK because at last they understood each other. But overall, I liked the movie, i recommend it and I don't think is a waste of time. I didn't like so much the end, I mean, what happened next?? maybe I can imagine or guess, but I would've loved to see what happened with their lives, whether it was a happy or sad end.Besides, it shows a real school-life, tell life of a student in love with a teacher, and even thought I've never been in a situation like that, I know people who has, and I guess there are plenty persons who have been through that.