Love and Death in Montmartre

Part literary documentary part fantasy romance LOVE DEATH IN MONTMARTRE explores the life and work of lesbian Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin whose suicide at age 26 devastated a generation of queer youth and whose ardent claim to her own right to love accelerated the movement for queer rights in Taiwan Largely told through Qius own words we are shown a young womans longing not just for anothers love but for herself In the face of a societys suppression of sapphism she writes and lives furiously