Lucy Lawless as a truck-driving savior in a peach of a queer awakening? Sign. Me. Up.
Lucy Lawless stars in this short which predated her rise to fame as Xena Princess Warrior. Sal is in a relationship going nowhere with Mog, a layabout who shows her no respect. A chance encounter with an easy-going female truck driver (Lawless) encourages Sal to take more chances in her life, symbolized by the purchase of a tasty but out-of-season peach.
Acting
Lawless's effortless butch charm steals every frame
Writing
Peach symbolism that actually lands
Production
Maximum atmosphere on minimum budget
Director
Christine Parker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot three years before Xena made Lawless a global icon; director Christine Parker later called it 'the lesbian film I made without knowing it was a lesbian film.'
A rare 90s New Zealand short centering working-class women's interior lives, now frequently programmed in queer film retrospectives despite its director's ambivalence about that reading.
NZ
