Shout It Out

I read the review of “Devotion” with delight (“A Thoughtful Tale of a Lost First Love,” April 12). You praised this movie as the best lesbian drama made to date. I collected a group of friends together, who like me hunger for any one of our stories to be told on the big screen.

For the next two hours and three minutes we as an audience were tortured with characters who at every moment miscommunicated and/or didn’t communicate. The actors looked as if their mouths were handcuffed. Never have I seen a movie so incredibly unrepresentative of the human condition. These characters found moping around and storming out of conversations to be much more desirable than telling the truth. Our audience was so frustrated by this way of dealing with things, that well-mannered adults began screaming at the movie screen.

Shouting out our frustration at yet another movie that represents some aspect of lesbian life that exists in someone’s homophobic imagination and does not represent the millions of lesbians who communicate honestly no matter how difficult it might be.

DYAN LEVINE

Venice