Even I, in my 63 year-old female dotage, got the bug. What a great pair. Both the characters and the actors. The story was tight; every moment was important; and there were a lot of silent moments. A couple of lesbians, one rich and older/one cute and younger, live together, love together, and sex up a storm. For the younger one, sex is every waking moment. Even moments with no physical contact. For her the act of being a sex slave makes her deliriously happy and sexy. She always has orders for her dominant queen. She dresses her, tells her how to sit, and how long. The dom is getting a little tired of the whole deal, or is she?

This is little more than a celluloid refuting of the earlier rom-com Butterflies Are Free as in this entry they are anything but. In a nutshell each morning Evelyn pedals her bicycle to the home - a large house on château scale - of her employer Cynthia where, it seems, she is totally incapable of performing any domestic chore - and these range from scrubbing the floor to hand-washing Cynthia's knickers - to her employer's satisfaction and must therefore be punished. In addition to being accomplished lepidopterists - the Duke of Burgundy is, of course, a species of butterfly as viable as a Camberwell Beauty - the women are, as is soon revealed, lesbian lovers, constantly repeating a ritual that is - as a subsequent revelation informs - scripted by the submissive Evelyn and conveyed to the faux-dominant Cynthia via a series of notes. Apparently the actress playing Cynthia, Sidse Babett Knudsen is well known to television audiences for her roles in a series of features emanating in her native Denmark so no surprise that she should now turn her hand to a touch of Danish Blue.

Nothing like a lesbian artsy film filled with insect metaphors to bring out the curmudgeon in me. I might even include a plot spoiler or two although I am not sure the film had a plot.

Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) are lovers and entomologists in a community of female entomologists which seems to represent some sort on insect community or perhaps it is the other way around. At home Cynthia is the queen bee while Evelyn is the submissive drone. Although we eventually find out Evelyn enjoys being the drone more than Cynthia enjoys being dominant...whose the naughty girl. It is a light S&M relationship that bored me to tears. It reminded me of an old Italian film , especially the sound track.

I didn't get anything out of it.

Guide: No swearing or nudity. Some F/F sex.