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Princess Cyd

Play trailer 1:57 Poster for Princess Cyd 2017 1h 36m Drama Romance LGBTQ+ Play Trailer Watchlist
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A 16-year-old girl visits her aunt in Chicago for the summer. While there, she falls for another girl, and she and her aunt challenge each other's sex and spirit.
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Princess Cyd defies coming-of-age convention to offer a sweetly understated - yet deeply resonant - look at pivotal relationships.

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Mike D'Angelo AV Club 07/20/2020
B-
So many movies are all sizzle and no steak; it's kind of refreshing, in a way, to be frustrated by all steak and no sizzle. Go to Full Review
Guy Lodge Guardian 07/20/2020
Stephen Cone's Princess Cyd is a soft-treading beauty, warm, light and perceptive on fragile questions of feminine sexuality, gender identity and finding your place in your skin. Go to Full Review
Heather Hogan Autostraddle 04/20/2018
Princess Cyd is quiet almost to the point of stillness and deeply generous. It believes women will heal each other and their communities. It hopes. Go to Full Review
Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson Jul 23
4/5
Rather than watching strife, jealousy, and misaligned comeuppance, "Princess Cyd" crafts prose to show fully blooming truthful and poignant parallels of both independence and interdependence meeting with relatable trepidation giving way to respect. Go to Full Review
Brendan Cassidy InSession Film 07/01/2024
B+
...if conflict is what you want to avoid, I admire that, and Jessie Pinnick makes it real when it counts... Go to Full Review
Michael Cuby them. 09/26/2022
A sensitive indie that still induces laughs, Princess Cyd is an underrated gem well worth your time. Go to Full Review
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Hazel S @Sylfreja 5d This felt more like a hallucination than a movie. Me and me girlfriend like watching lesbian movies together and some of them are good, but some are just what was left that we could find. This was neither. It was the most uncomfortable piece of film that I have watched to my memory. I don’t know why the people in the movie talked like they did, and about what they did, but the moments where I wasn’t cringing from the weirdness were few and far between. I don’t want to be too mean cause like good for people who enjoy it, but like if your gonna watch this I think a diversity of opinions could be helpful. Every time Cyd spoke to her aunt it was painful to witness, and to be honest every time Cyd spoke to anyone was uncomfortable. By the end of it you have made no noticeable progress and Cyd is just an uncomfortable mildly unpleasant person. It wanted to be sex accepting but seemed more like someone blindly threw hormones and drama in random places. I hope you like it, it’s weird. See more isla s @RT89656869 09/03/2022 This is quite a nice film, not too sexual so not especially graphic. I liked the way the friendship built between the two main characters. Its quite dialogue heavy but I liked it. The gay theme is covered in a sensitive way, in that it didn't feel exploitative or anything like that to me. I felt I could relate to the main character a little, in that I could understand her feeling awkward when she stood out. I liked it. See more Richard D @RT89807999 01/09/2022 This is a beautifully nuanced portrayal of a sassy young woman contrasted with her slightly pain-in-the-neck, hyper reflective, middle aged aunt. When I watch Steven Cone's films I think I am seeing real people. Having watched his three main films several times - alone and with friends - I can only wait in hope of his next. See more krysten k @RT43049962 06/06/2021 in a sea of lgbtq cringe, this is one of the greats. See more 09/18/2020 so subtle and accurate, with complex characters. it made me laugh, it made me think and at some points it almost made me cry! See more 02/26/2020 Pleasant little movie populated by refreshingly nice people, with nary a ne'er-do-well to be seen. With a minor exception, any tension is in there somewhere in coming-of-age bisexuality of two young women and a good-natured generation gap. Spence's character is a writer and literature professor like William Heard in "One True Thing," although a polar opposite: kind, unpretentious and secure. She's given to hosting poetry parties, but those are mercifully short. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A 16-year-old girl visits her aunt in Chicago for the summer. While there, she falls for another girl, and she and her aunt challenge each other's sex and spirit.
Director
Stephen Cone
Producer
Stephen Cone, Madison Ginsberg, Bryan Hart, Grace Hahn
Screenwriter
Stephen Cone
Distributor
Wolfe Releasing
Production Co
Sunroom Pictures
Genre
Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 3, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 5, 2017
Runtime
1h 36m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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