All Over Me

REVIEW
This first feature film from the Sichel sisters (Alex directed, Sylvia wrote) is a painfully tender and knowing tale of one 15-year-old girl's emerging lesbian sexuality. Set in New York's Hell's Kitchen, the story follows Claude (Folland), a high schooler secretly in love with her best friend Ellen (Subkoff), a straight gal who in turn falls for a thuggish homophobe. How Claude deals with the emotional pain of unrequited first love as well as having to deal with coming out is the involving drama's central tale. All over Me is told with grit and real emotion.