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‘Lilies Not For Me’ Clip: First Look At Romantic Drama Based On Historic Conversion Therapy Scandal Starring ‘Normal People’ Breakout Fionn O’Shea — Edinburgh Film Festival
‘Normal People’ breakout Fionn O’Shea leads the drama.
EXCLUSIVE: One of the buzzier titles set to debut at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival is Lilies Not For Me, the first feature from American filmmaker Will Seefried, which we can share a first-look clip from above. Through their conversations, he tells her the story of his relationship with an old friend which spiraled out of control when they turned to a risky procedure to cure themselves of their forbidden feelings for one another. “This history struck me as a chilling expression of the violence that queer people still endure to this day, while evoking the books and films that were most influential to me as a young person — haunting period romances with queer relationships at their center, like James Baldwin’s masterpiece Giovanni’s Room, Todd Haynes’ Carol, and Merchant Ivory’s Maurice, to name a few,” Seefried said.
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