Heavenly Creatures

Part of the Special Series NACHTBLENDE

“Kate Winslet has been out there doing it for the lesbians all this time.” Marian on Letterboxd

Before Peter Jackson mapped Middle-earth, he made one of the most beautiful, saddest, and most dangerous films of the 1990s. And before Kate Winslet almost drowned as Rose on the Titanic, she made her debut in HEAVENLY CREATURES as an overexcited Juliet in 1950s provincial New Zealand.

There she meets the silent Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) and the two fall in love. With each other, with opera singer Mario Lanza, with their decadent fantasy world, with the idea of being somewhere else entirely. And when someone tries to separate them, they make a radical decision that will make for one of the most memorable film endings of the 1990s...