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CODEPENDENT LESBIAN SPACE ALIEN SEEKS SAME
U.S., 2011
Directed by Madeleine Olnek
With Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler, Jackie Monahan, Cynthia Kaplan
Approx. 75 min. DCP.
The planet Zots is in danger. To save it, lavender-leaning aliens Zoinx, Zylar, and Barr descend to earth to have their hearts broken, scrounging together romances at coffee shops and hardware stores. Lisa Haas, Lesbian comedy’s unsung hero and Olnek’s frequent collaborator, is unforgettably hilarious as the scruffy, love-shy shop girl. CODEPENDENT LESBIAN SPACE ALIEN SEEKS SAME is an adaptation of a play Olnek originally wrote and directed for New York's WOW Café theater in 1992.
Reviews
“You probably haven’t given the sexual orientation of aliens much thought lately, …[but] thankfully, director Madeleine Olnek has done the thinking for you, and [has] come up with a film that mixes the best parts of 1950s B movies and New York City romantic comedies.”
– Jon Roth, Out
“Madeleine Olnek’s witty ode to urban love and shoestring sci-fi…The film’s pleasures are in the details, like Jane’s casual warning to ‘watch out for the syringes’ when she and Zoinx ponder a Coney Island swim. A clever subplot involving the odd-couple relationship of two government agents — as well as actual news footage of a 2010 U.F.O. scare in Chelsea — cements the lighthearted tone, and toilet-flushing noises exemplify the sophistication of the special effects. Ed Wood would have been proud.”
– Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times