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Lost and Delirious is a Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool that was released in 2001. Loosely based on the novel The Wives Of Bath by Susan Swan, Lost and Delirious is filmed from the perspective of Mary Brave, played by Mischa Barton on her experience of the destruction of homophobia in the relationship between her two teenage friends and lovers, Paulie and Victoria (played by Piper Perabo and Jessica Paré).
Plot summary
Mary is a new boarding school student, and dorms with Paulie and Victoria. Shortly after, Mary observes the intimacy between her two dorm mates. The couple also have interesting interactions with the other characters, for example when Pauline defends Victoria from the frustrated math teacher, or when the two and some others at their lunch table kick out some other kids at the bottom of the table.
But then Paulie and Victoria are caught in bed together by Victoria's sister and friends. Horrified, Victoria tries to extinguish her sister's suspicions by telling her Paulie was a lesbian and that Pauline simply crawled into her bed. Victoria receives her sister's promise to "fix" the rumors about her as well as not tell their parents anything. Leaving, Victoria begins to weep at her own self rejection.
In the library, Victoria explains to Mary that her family, her parents and her sister, are strongly homophobic, and she must stop the relationship to prevent their rejection. The break up is not clean however. Paulie degenerates into psychotic abusive behavior, like destroying a mirror and thrashing a dish cart to the ground. Meanwhile, Victoria creates an image of heterosexuality to her friends and her sister, dating a guy and hardly speaking to Pauline.
Victoria has sex with her boyfriend, which prompts Paulie to declare a duel with him. After defeating him in a fencing match, she demands that he give up her queen. When he brushes her off, she stabs her sword into his leg. Mary rushes to stop her. Paulie then runs off. Mary runs to Victoria's soccer match, which is being watched by the principle and the main teacher. Just after reaching the group, Mary sees Paulie, sobbing from the top of a building. Crying out for her beloved, she falls to her death.
The movie was filmed in Lennoxville, Quebec on the Bishop's University Campus and across the Massawippi River at Bishop's College School. Students attending summer classes there during filming were used as extras. Also appearing in the film are Graham Greene, Mimi Kuzyk and Caroline Dhavernas.
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2001 films | Canadian films | LGBT-related films | Teen films
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