Elena Undone

I'm a 68 year old white heterosexual male...who happens to LOVE relationship movies, and LESBIAN relationship movies in particular....and lesbian-meeting-and-loving-straight-woman-relationship movies even more!!Those predilections taken into account, "Elena Undone" is the absolute BEST of that "genre"!!Before I saw "Elena", I'd watched "Room in Rome", and THAT movie became my #1 in the above genre.(Previously, my favorite "lesbian" movie was "Everything Relative", but that movie is sorta like "The Big Chill" of lesbian movies. Great flick, but NOT in the "lez loves straight" category!!)So, why is "Elena Undone" so fabulous??I'll begin with the story.It's believable!A married (15 years) woman with a teen son meets a lesbian at an adoption center. Elena (a sensational Necar Zadegan) and her Pastor husband have tried, but failed to conceive a 2nd child. Peyton (an also-sensational Traci Dinwiddie) is a woman whose mother just died, whose last relationship ended, but who wants to have a child.It's an instant attraction!!For both of them!!For Peyton, it's easy.....she's met another woman she's very attracted to.For Elena.....not so easy!!She's NEVER been attracted to a woman, hasn't even kissed a woman...ever!The story follows their blossoming relationship, from first chats to a photo shoot (for Peyton's book cover...Elena is a GREAT photog!!) to deeper and deeper involvement....to their first long kiss (advertised as the "longest kiss in cinema history"!!)...to sex.But this is one story where the sex ACT isn't the be all-end all of the movie.Nonetheless, it's beautifully done, erotic, sensual, poetic.I won't reveal what happens later.....You'll have to see the movie for that!....but problems DO arise, and how they deal with those problems makes the ending a real HUGE tearjerking few minutes!!Yes, me, a 68 year old male, cried WET tears (not just a damp tear drifting down my cheek, but SOB-like crying!!) in the last 10 minutes of the film!!The actresses.In one word, PERFECT!!If you can think of any "name" actresses who could have done a better job, please let me know!!They are beautiful, and display their emotions right up FRONT!!You really believe these women ARE falling in love, and ARE lusting after the other!!The dialogueAs a writer for 47 years (and counting!), I MUST have GREAT dialogue to make me enjoy a movie (or TV show or book).And "Elena Undone" has all that!!I don't know if any of it was improvised (the dialogue, I mean), but it easily COULD have been!!Because the words these women speak are words YOU have spoken in YOUR serious relationships...and words I've spoken in mine!!Again, in one word, PERFECT!!Then there's the "extras".Meaning the other characters.Elena's best friend is a married male motivational speaker who's doing a documentary on "twin flames", people meeting their true soulmates. (They're platonic friends!!)Peyton's best friend is another lesbian she's known since high school. She's a wise-cracking Brit (Her accent sounds British!!) who is always THERE for Peyton!!Also, interspersed throughout are "real" (??) couples who tell the audience (or Elena's friend's camera!!) how they met and fell in love. Reminded me a LOT of similar scenes from "When Harry Met Sally"!!Then there's Elena's husband, who plays it kind of straightforward.And their son, Nash, who has a key role in the movie.Lastly, there's Nash's girlfriend, Tori, who is INCREDIBLE!!Wait till you see and hear HER!!!All told, if there's a "better" lesbian-loves-straight movie, with all the necessary elements--emotions, lust, love, sex, believability--please tell me its name!!For lesbians and straights alike (both female AND male variety!), "Elena Undone" is a MUST SEE movie!!

This classy, well made, poignant, sensual lesbian drama features commendable performances by drop dead gorgeous Traci Dinwiddie, playing the part of Peyton, and Necar Zadegan, playing the part of Elena, in what constitutes a well directed romance, based on an amalgamation of true stories, by acclaimed director, Nicole Con (probably one of her best efforts to date), that incorporates a brilliant soundtrack and an engrossing screenplay that revolves around the story of Elena, an Indian married to a conservative right wing preacher opposed to lesbian marriages, to whom she has never felt any real love and whom their son and his girlfriend finds overbearing, discovering herself unaccountably attracted to Peyton, whom she met during Peyton's attempt to adopt a child, after she embarks to photograph Peyton in a session where she discovers herself experiencing unaccountable feelings of tenderness for Peyton and under the encouragement of a liberal preacher who gave innumerable sermons encouraging his parishioners to search for their true soul mate regardless of gender as the discovery of true love is so confoundingly difficult and true love so ephemereal, gradually finding herself unable to control her feelings for Peyton and discreetly engaging in passionate sexual relations with her and falling in love despite her strict religious upbringing and what she has been brought up to belief, dealing with her inabilty to confess her love for Peyton to her husband and leaving Peyton to go on a vacation with her husband in Hawaii, where she receives countless love letters from Peyton, and promises to take time off for a sexual triste but failing to do so on countless occasions, until one occasion where she manages to escape her husband to meet with Peyton, during which time they engage in passionate sex, after which she engages in a serious conversation with Peyton, during which time Peyton decides she cannot continue with the relationship due to Elena's unwillingness to leave her husband, leaving Elena crushed, but resolving to confess her feelings to her husband, and hence achieve self actualization as a photographer and a woman, and being forced confess her feelings to her son, after he discoveres Peyton's love letters to Elena and confronts his mother, only to encounter Peyton in a park, with Peyton finding herself unable to resist Elena and kissing her in public, where her husband's closest friend in Christ witnesses them kissing and take several shots with her camera phone and shows them to Elena's husband, prompting a confrontation between Elena and her husband that culminates in Elena leaving her husband, only to discover Peyton rejecting her when she discovers Elena pregnant and mistakenly reaches the conclusion that she was unfaithful to her and had engaged in intercourse with her husband when they were apart, until Elena falls ill and her son requests Peyton's presence at her hospital bed, to which she reluctantly agrees, during which time Elena declares her true love for Peyton and explains that their liberal preacher had engage in sexual intercourse with her to reward them with the child that they had so ardently desired, and the two resolve to take each other's hand in marriage in a movie that heavily criticizes the teachings of Christianity and unreasonable dogma of this ridiculous religion.Highly recommended.