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Bruising for Besos. Yoli, a lesbian artist, escapes her traumatic past by moving to Los Angeles and creating a new family of friends. She finds passion with a nurse, but as their relationship...
- Drama
- Adelina Anthony
- Adelina Anthony
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NR 1 hr 30 min Jun 19th, 2016 Drama. A charismatic Xicana lesbian seduces an alluring Puerto Rican woman and finds herself recreating her tumultuous past. Director Adelina...
- Adelina Anthony
- On How She Got Her Start
- On How She Got to La
- On What Bruising For Besos Is Really About
- On Why Using Humor Became Necessary in This Story
- On Making A Deeply Personal But Highly Fictional Film
- On Being A Queer Chicana Artist
- On What She Hopes The Audience Will Take Away from The Film
I started as an actor and I was doing work as an actor and then because of my budding lesbianism… I landed in Nueva York… but that wasn’t a scene for me cuz like I was a Chicana, Tejana. I got a lot of “¿Pero que tu eres, Colombiana?” and they just looked at me like “You’re this foreign it.” I loved that time because I got exposed to Dominicanos, B...
I knew being there that NY was not going to work for me and at the time, I was in my early twenties, I realized how much I had been shaped by Tejas. It’s like expansive cielo. In NY it’s like looking up at Tetris pieces. I was missing my cultura. I can still remember my comadres saying “Ok Adelina, you can’t say y’all here” and I was like “What?“ “...
There’s a long history with it. Precisely because it does come from the semilla of embodied knowing of violence within a household. It’s essentially looking at this young queer chicana protagonist, trying to understand how domestic violence in her household is being replayed in her adult life. Yoli’s addiction is mujeres. And whether queer or not w...
They are like the ying and the yang. As an artist, I’m always trying to bring in both. Humor is absolutely necessary in Bruising for Besos because if not it would be too harsh of a story to take in. Because I come from the world of comedy, I really try to add these moments of respite. These two mujeres ignite in each other unresolved familial histo...
It is deeply personal and highly fictional. One of the things that happens to us as writers of color is that folks always wanna go like, “Oh, that’s autobiographical.” It’s as if we never re-edited, transformed or imagined our work. We’re still working at a political spectrum where the white writer, the one that has been historically given the priv...
As POC and women we are always expected to fall into the passive role and to follow that. It’s like lets get our normative protagonist and let’s go on his journey. And we’re supposed to relate and quite often we do but the inverse isn’t true because historically and politically speaking our stories haven’t been given the space to be out in the worl...
It comes back to it needs to be medicine for us and sometimes the medicine is bitter, sometimes the medicine is candy coated. And it feels good, but if I only have so many days on this planet, if I’m just one artist who’s trying to work in this very specific framework then I want my work to matter. I really want to create films that we’re going to ...
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Bruising for Besos is a 2016 romantic-drama film that explores the complex relationships between individuals from different cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities. The movie, directed by Adelina Anthony, stars herself alongside D'Lo and Carolyn Zeller.
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