Fans of queer cinema, 'A League of Their Own' or just good old-fashioned love stories will find much to celebrate in 'A Secret Love'. Read THR's review:
The couple met in 1947, at a hockey rink in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Terry Donahue had recently moved to the U.S. to play baseball — in a skirt — for the now-famed All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Pat Henschel was a sinewy farm kid from a turbulent home. They fell in love, their swoony adoration immortalized in clandestine letters to one another with the signatures torn from the bottom of the pages so no one could later identify the authors.
Bolan, Terry's grand-nephew, utilizes his intimacy with the subjects to craft a story that is at once a moving portrait of long-lasting love and also a bittersweet meditation on the aging process. Tender without being cloying, naturalistic without seeming contrived,. The film addresses trauma, but you won't find an ounce of tragedy here.
To the rest of the world they were best friends — Pat quickly became a part of Terry's large family — all the while they dated and even became engaged to men. After watching some interviews with Terry's family, including her doting nieces who testify to the closed-mindedness of their aunt's nuclear family, it's easier to understand the women's reticence to reveal their partnership, even while LGBTQ rights expanded in the U.S. and Canada.
Terry suggests a large portion of her fellow athletes in the AAGPBL were queer, describing her youthful fear at the rumors of such women, which caused her and her roommates to lock their doors at night long before she met Pat. Think of, which, despite being a marvelous film, unrealistically eschews the possibility of queer love among its subjects.
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