Loving Annabelle
Rising star Erin Kelly is Annabelle, a precocious Senator's daughter who falls for her Catholic school teacher, Simone (Diane Gaidry, The Dogwalker). After Simone is assigned to control the rebellious student, she instead finds herself drawn into Annabelle's world. As their attraction builds, the two women must cope with the reactions of those around them. Writer-Director Katherine Brooks unveils this smoldering tale of forbidden love with intelligence, wit and sensitivity.
A lot of taboos are broken in Loving Annabelle, even if the film itself remains remarkably tasteful--even demure. The central characters are two women, a teacher and her student, and the setting is an all-girls school (shades of Lost and Delirious). Annabelle (the smoldering Erin Kelly), a senior, is a rebellious rocker chick--the Beverly Hills version that is, i.e. highlighted hair, black eyeliner, and nose ring. Her senatorial mother ships her off to boarding school to shape up. Annabelle's hard-partying ways are starting to become an embarrassment. Miss Simone Bradley (the sympathetic Diane Gaidry) is a popular poetry teacher. She's a Catholic. Annabelle is not. Simone has a boyfriend, Annabelle is gay. Looks can be deceiving, however, and there's more to both than meets the eye. For one, Simone's relationship is not as secure as it appears. For another, Annabelle's ardor is so relentless it threatens to sway sympathy against her. She seems to have no regard for the damage an affair would inflict on her teacher's career. Nonetheless, Simone is not entirely resistant to her charms. Inspired by 1931's Mädchen in Uniform, writer/director Katherine Brooks preserves the forbidden relationship at the heart of the Weimar-era classic, but drops the political subtext. Consequently, she doesn't take on more than she can handle, but Loving Annabelle still feels a little slight. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Loving Annabelle Reviews
The movie would be better with an alternate ending. This was a great movie. The chemistry between the teacher and Annabelle is awesome.
This show is nice as to seeing how it develops. , this show is nice. Although the ending is a bit. It just shows how much one should face up to their own feelings :) NICE.
You really come to care about the characters in the movie and wonder how things worked out for them. It is worth a chance, and you will be rewarded with an excellent movie. The story is not overshadowed by the steamy scenes but enhanced. I really enjoyed the movie Loving Annabelle because it was both a good story and incredibly factual.
Even though Annabelle was the one who pursued the relationship, that doesn't make it any more okay for Simone to cross the line. The filming was average - again, I've seen worse, but I've seen a lot better too. It's more than the fact that Annabelle is under 18. Throw in the teacher-student aspect and my resulting nausea and I can't give this better than 1 star. If this movie had been about a mother and her daughter becoming sexually involved, that would have disgusted me. I still shudder when I think of it. The relationship between them should have been parental in nature, never sexual. From the beginning of this movie, I just couldn't shake the feeling of how wrong it is - this teacher becoming involved with a student.
The acting was not great, but I've seen worse. Aside from the BIG issue of a teacher becoming sexually involved with a student, I would rate the film perhaps 2 or 2.5 stars at best. Just like parents and clergy, teachers hold a unique place of trust, authority and responsibility. As much as I had hoped that this would be a good movie (based on the overall good reviews), the relationship between these two was just plain inappropriate and it grossed me out. As for other elements. Simone, a clearly much older woman, was Annabelle's teacher and dorm monitor.
I think is a great love story.And the sex scene is pure art. Like ten times in 2 days. I just wached this movie and I couldn't stop waching it.
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